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Unruly women : the politics of social and sexual control in the old South /
"In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, sh...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture
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Table of Contents:
- Race, class, and gender in three Piedmont counties
- White womanhood, black womanhood : ideals and realities in a Piedmont slaveholding society
- The limits of paternalism : property, divorce, and domestic relations
- Punishing deviant women : the state as patriarch
- The struggle to survive : the lives of slave, free black, and poor white women during the Civil War
- "The women is as bad as the men" : women's participation in the inner Civil War.