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; white and black; Democrat and Republican - 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.
#3192638 in Books 2004-02-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .70 x 6.00l; .89 #File Name: 0252029038200 pages
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