Title Single, white, slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South / Marie S. Molloy

Published Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 228 pages) Contents The construction of femininity in the antebellum South -- Single women and the southern family -- Work -- Female friendship -- Law, property, and the single woman Summary "Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women--from the pre- to the post-Civil War South--within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate nonmarriage, widowhood, separation, and divorce. These single women were not subject to the laws and customs of coverture, in which females were covered by or subject to the governance of fathers, brothers, and husbands, and therefore lived with greater autonomy than married women. Molloy contends that the Civil War proved a catalyst for accelerating personal, social, economic, and legal changes for these women. Being a single woman during this time often meant living a creative and nuanced life, operating within a tight framework of traditional gender conventions while managing subtle changes that worked to their advantage. Singleness was often a route to autonomy and independence that over time expanded and reshaped traditional ideals of Southern womanhood"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 03, 2018) Subject Single women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- Women. Single women Slaveholders SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125646 Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125648 Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018010955 ISBN 9781611178715 1611178711

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