"Scarlett's Sisters" explores the meaning of nineteenth-century
southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated
fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite,
white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young
women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to
assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women.
Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women between
ages fifteen and twenty-five, Jabour traces the socialization of
southern ladies from early adolescence through young adulthood.
Amidst the upheaval of the Civil War, Jabour shows, elite young
women, once reluctant to challenge white supremacy and male
dominance, became more rebellious. They adopted the ideology of
Confederate independence in shaping a new model of southern
womanhood that eschewed dependence on slave labor and male
guidance.
By tracing the lives of young women in a society in flux, Jabour
reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new
one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned,
and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.
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