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Mar 4, 1996 · Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.
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- Drew Gilpin Faust
Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.
Jan 1, 1996 · Faust explores the gender role transformations and issues confronted by women in the slaveholding south when the male population (between the ages of 17-55) by and large left their domestic settings (and farms) for war.
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Feb 28, 2020 · When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves.
Aug 11, 2001 · Drew Gilpin Faust provides an engaging account of the struggles of elite Southern women as their cherished way of life disintegrated. Mothers of Invention draws upon the writings of Confederate women–popular fiction as well as letters and diaries–to paint a picture of cataclysmic social change.
Oct 25, 2004 · Drew Faust's Mothers of Invention provides a fascinating analysis of how the Civil War at once subverted and reinforced traditional gender roles among southern women.
Jan 1, 2004 · When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive...
