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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Hardcover)
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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Hardcover)
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Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground to examine the race, class, and
ethnic differences among antebellum Southern Appalachian women.
Most women defied separate spheres of gender conventions to
undertake agricultural and non-agricultural labors that were
essential to family survival or community well-being. Unlike elite
and middle-class females, Cherokee, black, and poor white women
engaged in stigmatized labors and worked alongside males in
cross-racial settings. To support their work portfolios, non-white
and most poor white women constructed non-patriarchal families that
challenged cultural ideals of motherhood. Churches and courts
inequitably regulated the sexual behaviors of these women and
treated their households as aberrations that were not entitled to
the legal privilege of family sanctity. Legal and religious
officials sanctioned family break-ups and the removal,
indenturement, or enslavement of their children. Still, many women
resisted patriarchal conventions through their work lives, family
roles, and group activism.
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