| Freedom S Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi Contributor(s): Frankel, Noralee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253334950 ISBN-13: 9780253334954 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $23.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: African American women both accepted and defied conventional definitions of private and public spheres. As freed women and men tried to minimize interference by their former owners, practically everything considered private became a public issue: marriage, mobility, parenthood, housing, and control over African American women's sexuality. Experiences such as pregnancy, nursing, the preparation of meals, and washing clothes, taken for granted as private by freed women, became areas of heated debate between employers and employees. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 976.200 |
| LCCN: 99025526 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.46" W x 9.5" (1.30 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Frankel's scholarship in this carefully researched and clearly written study is impressive. . . . The study is thoroughly documented with 70 pages of footnotes and a 14-page bibliography, refleccting Frankel's grasp of the secondary literature as well as extensive work in primary documents. --Choice Freedom's Women examines African American women's experiences during the Civil War and early Reconstruction years in Mississippi. Exploring issues of family and work, the author shows how African American women's attempts to achieve more control over their lives shaped their attitudes toward work, marriage, family, and community. |