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326 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780679781042
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication date: Not specified
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In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as " women" but as " ladies, " models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social uph...
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326 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780679781042
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication date: Not specified
Description
In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as " women" but as " ladies, " models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social uph...