Unruly women : the politics of social and sexual control in the old South /

Unruly women : the politics of social and sexual control in the old South /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bynum, Victoria E. (Author)
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1992]
Series:	Gender & American culture. Civil rights and social justice. Women and the law.
Subjects:	Women > North Carolina > History > 19th century. Deviant behavior > History > 19th century. Female offenders > North Carolina > History > 19th century. Social control > History > 19th century. North Carolina > Race relations. Electronic books.
Online Access:	HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice HeinOnline Women and the Law
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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.