Stepping Lively in Place - The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi

Informationen zum Autor JOYCE LINDA BROUSSARD is a professor of U.S. southern and women's history at California State University Northridge. She served as codirector of the Natchez Courthouse Records Project, which included among its activities the biennial Historic Natchez Conferences. Broussard has published in the field of gender and women's history, including essays in support of an educator's website for PBS documentaries dealing with slavery, the Supreme Court, and the history of Jim Crow and racism in America. Klappentext Broussard looks at all types of single women--black and white, law-abiding and criminal--including spinsters, widows, divorcees, and abandoned women. She demonstrates the nuanced degrees to which these women understood that the legal, cultural, and social traditions of their place and time could alternately constrain or empower them. Zusammenfassung Broussard looks at all types of single women—black and white, law-abiding and criminal—including spinsters, widows, divorcees, and abandoned women. She demonstrates the nuanced degrees to which these women understood that the legal, cultural, and social traditions of their place and time could alternately constrain or empower them.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Broussard, Joyce L. Broussard, Joyce Linda Broussard
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780820345499
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4549-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)