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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393952649
ISBN-139780393952643
eBay Product ID (ePID)893102
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Book TitleFree Women of Petersburg : Status and Culture in a Southern Town 1784-1860
Number of Pages350 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1985
TopicWomen, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Women's Studies
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorSuzanne Lebsock
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsThis is one of those rare books which breaks new ground. Southern urban women, black and white, in the antebellum years were different from their plantation counterparts, but Suzanne Lebsock is the first historian to find a way to examine their life experience in illuminating detail., Suzanne Lebsock's careful and precisely crafted study is a major contribution to American women's history. Her comprehensive analysis of one community during a key transitional period sheds new light on such important subjects as women's legal status, their work lives inside and outside the home, and the differing experience of black and white women. Her intelligence and hard work show on every page.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal305.4/2/09755581
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisFocusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for example, how women's lives were changing in response to the economy and the institutions of property ownership and slavery. By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture., By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture., In this book, which has important implications for our vision of thefemale past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position ofwomen in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of thenineteenth century?
LC Classification NumberHQ1423.L39 1985
