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Her Act and Deed - Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Her Act and Deed - Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life
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Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public
lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of
their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed:
Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 follows the
threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public
records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth
century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South
that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and
Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of
those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public
records for those years challenges the theory of men's and women's
separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars. The
world Boswell reconstructs allows readers a more egalitarian,
multicultural look at life: working class and poor women, both
black and white, join their more affluent sisters in the pages of
the Colorado County, Texas, courthouse records. Those same records
reveal that the men of that world--most of them planters or
farmers, the majority of them owning at least a few slaves--are a
force for women to reckon with, both in public and at home. The
almost constant presence of men in the home and their need to
uphold the dominant, slave-holding hierarchy produced a patriarchy
more pervasive than that experienced by women in the urban north.
Eminently readable and accessible to scholars and general readers
alike, Her Act and Deed represents a welcome addition to the
classroom, to the scholar's library, and to Texas history
collections.
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