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Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Gender and American Culture

Bynum

Unruly Women

The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-8078-4361-1
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

Reihe: Gender and American Culture

ISBN: 978-0-8078-4361-1
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press


In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates ""unruly"" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences and behavior reflected and influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state and region. Her work expands our knowledge of black and white women by studying them outside the plantation setting. Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women. Some appeared in court as abused, sometimes abusive, wives, as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent assaults, or as participants in ilicit, interracial relationships. During the Civil War, women freqently were cited for theft, trespassing, or rioting, usually in an effort to gain goods made scarce by war. Some women were charged with harboring evaders or deserters of the Confederacy, an act that reflected their conviction that the Confederacy was destroying them. These politically powerless unruly women threatened to disrupt the underlying social structure of the Old South, which depended on the services and cooperation of all women. Bynum examines the effects of women's social and sexual behavior on the dominant society and shows the ways in which power flowed between private and public spheres. Whether wives or unmarried, enslaved or free, women were active agents of the society's ordering and dissolution.

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Victoria E. Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies and The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War.



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