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Gendered strife & confusion: the political culture of Reconstruction
title
Gendered strife & confusion: the political culture of Reconstruction
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publisher
University of Illinois Press
publication year
1997
description
Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links post-Civil War transformations in private and public life. She illustrates how ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners--elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans--envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.
education level
temporal
reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Edwards, Laura F.