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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South

Wilma A. Dunaway

出版	Cambridge University Press, 2008-03-10
主題	Business & Economics / Women in BusinessHistory / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / Modern / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & WelfareSocial Science / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Gender StudiesSocial Science / Poverty & Homelessness
ISBN	05218861989780521886192
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NwGoZ_xqlMoC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground to examine the race, class, and ethnic differences among antebellum Southern Appalachian women. Most women defied separate spheres of gender conventions to undertake agricultural and non-agricultural labors that were essential to family survival or community well-being. Unlike elite and middle-class females, Cherokee, black, and poor white women engaged in stigmatized labors and worked alongside males in cross-racial settings. To support their work portfolios, non-white and most poor white women constructed non-patriarchal families that challenged cultural ideals of motherhood. Churches and courts inequitably regulated the sexual behaviors of these women and treated their households as aberrations that were not entitled to the legal privilege of family sanctity. Legal and religious officials sanctioned family break-ups and the removal, indenturement, or enslavement of their children. Still, many women resisted patriarchal conventions through their work lives, family roles, and group activism.