Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700 1835

by Cynthia A. Kierner

Book Overview

Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801484626
• ISBN13: 9780801484629
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher