Confederate daughters : coming of age during the Civil War /
"This book explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledging nation, born out of a conservative movement to preserve the st...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2008], ©2008
Carbondale : c2008 Carbondale : ©2008 Carbondale : [2008] |
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| Summary: | "This book explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledging nation, born out of a conservative movement to preserve the status quo, brought them into new areas of work, new types of civic activism, and new rituals of courtship during the Civil War." "Drawing on their personal and published recollections of the war, slavery, and the Old South, Ott argues that young women created a unique female identity different from that of older Southern women, the Confederate belle. This transformative female identity was an important aspect of the Lost Cause mythology - the version of the conflict that focused on Southern nationalism - and bridged the cultural gap between the antebellum and postbellum periods. Augmented by twelve illustrations, this book offers a generational understanding of the transitional nature of wartime and its effects on women's self-perceptions."--BOOK JACKET "This book explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledging nation, born out of a conservative movement to preserve the status quo, brought them into new areas of work, new types of civic activism, and new rituals of courtship during the Civil War." "Drawing on their personal and published recollections of the war, slavery, and the Old South, Ott argues that young women created a unique female identity different from that of older Southern women, the Confederate belle. This transformative female identity was an important aspect of the Lost Cause mythology - the version of the conflict that focused on Southern nationalism - and bridged the cultural gap between the antebellum and postbellum periods. Augmented by twelve illustrations, this book offers a generational understanding of the transitional nature of wartime and its effects on women's self-perceptions."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xiii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-208) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index |
| ISBN: | 0809328283 (alk. paper) 0809328283 9780809328284 (alk. paper) 9780809328284 |