Scarlett doesn't live here anymore : Southern women in the Civil War era

Summary: "Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War - a history that focuses on the women who made up the fabric of southern life before and during the war and remade themselves and their world after it.".

Record details

ISBN: 0252025687 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780252025686 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780252072185 (br)
ISBN: 0252072189 (br)
Physical Description: print
x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (233-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	PART 1: Before. Privilege and its price -- The myth of male independence -- The dilemmas of womanhood in slavery -- -- PART 2: During. Embracing that which would destroy them -- Fighting any longer is fighting against God -- For the freedom of the colored people -- -- PART 3: After. Talking for her rights -- We is poor but we's proud -- This is new and disagreeable work to us all.