Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction

Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction
ISBN-10
0252066006
ISBN-13
9780252066009
Category
History
Pages
378
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Laura F. Edwards

Description

Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. 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 long beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.

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