Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old SouthIn this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives |
Contents
Race Class and Gender in Three Piedmont Counties | 15 |
White Womanhood Black Womanhood Ideals and Realities in a Piedmont Slaveholding Society | 35 |
The Limits of Paternalism Property Divorce and Domestic Relations | 59 |
Punishing Deviant Women The State as Patriarch | 88 |
The Struggle to Survive The Lives of Slave Free Black and Poor White Women during the Civil War | 111 |
The Women Is as Bad as the Men Womens Participation in the Inner Civil War | 130 |
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Page xiii - Manuscripts in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1941.