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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394722531
ISBN-139780394722535
eBay Product ID (ePID)214166
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Book TitlePlantation Mistress : Woman's World in the Old South
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWomen, Sociology / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Women's Studies
Publication Year1984
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorCatherine Clinton
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight11 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Reviews"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it." Eric Foner, History Book Club Review "Clinton has assembled many interesting quotations from old letters and diaries to support her belief that women in the antebellum South were generally overworked, often unhealthy, and little freer than their slaves." Atlantic Monthly "One can be grateful that the recent emphasis on the study of women's history has encouraged this much-needed work." Christian Science Monitor From the Trade Paperback edition., "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it." Eric Foner, History Book Club Review "Clinton has assembled many interesting quotations from old letters and diaries to support her belief that women in the antebellum South were generally overworked, often unhealthy, and little freer than their slaves." Atlantic Monthly "One can be grateful that the recent emphasis on the study of women's history has encouraged this much-needed work." Christian Science Monitor, " The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions--the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it." --Eric Foner, History Book Club Review "Clinton has assembled many interesting quotations from old letters and diaries to support her belief that women in the antebellum South were generally overworked, often unhealthy, and little freer than their slaves." -- Atlantic Monthly "One can be grateful that the recent emphasis on the study of women's history has encouraged this much-needed work." -- Christian Science Monitor
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Dewey Decimal305.4/2/0975
Table Of ContentPreface: Hidden Lives, xi Chapter I: Women in the Land of Cotton, 3 Chapter II: Slave of Slaves, 16 Chapter III: Circle of Kin, 36 Chapter IV: The Day to Fix my Fate, 59 Chapter V: The Moral Bind, 87 Chapter VI: The Fallen Woman, 110 Chapter VII: Equally Their Due, 123 Chapter VIII: Precious and Precarious in Body and Soul, 139 Chapter IX: Every Woman Was an Island, 164 Chapter X: The Curse of Slavery, 180 Chapter XI: The Sexual Dynamics of Slavery, 199 Chapter XII: Foucault Meets Mandingo, 223 Appendix A, 232 Appendix B, 239 Abbreviations of Archives Referred to in Notes and Bibliography, 243 Notes, 245 Bibliography, 295 Index, 324
SynopsisThis pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
