Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old SouthSusanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 324 pages Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Rural World and the Coming of the Market Economy | 13 |
Dollars Never Fail to Melt Their Hearts Native Women and the Market Revolution | 15 |
Made by the Hands of Indians Cherokee Women and Trade | 34 |
Producing Dependence Women Work and Yeoman Households in LowCountry South Carolina | 55 |
WageEarning Women in the Urban South | 73 |
A White Woman of Middle Age Would Be Preferred Childrens Nurses in the Old South | 75 |
Spheres of Influence Working White and Black Women in Antebellum Savannah | 102 |
The Female Academy and Beyond Three Mordecai Sisters at Work in the Old South | 174 |
Peculiar Professionals The Financial Strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines | 198 |
Faith and Frugality in Antebellum Baltimore The Economic Credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence | 221 |
Working Women in the Industrial South | 247 |
I Cant Get My Bored on Them Old Lomes Female Textile Workers in the Antebellum South | 249 |
To Harden a Ladys Hand Gender Politics Racial Realities and Women Millworkers in Antebellum Georgia | 261 |
Invisible Woman Female Labor in the Upper Souths Iron and Mining Industries | 285 |
Contributors | 309 |
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References to this book
Engendering Whiteness: White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North ... Cecily Jones No preview available - 2007 |