| Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860 (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lebsock, Suzanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393952649 ISBN-13: 9780393952643 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1985 Annotation: In a new book that has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century? Winner of the Bancroft Prize for 1985. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History |
| Dewey: 305.4 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1300 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5.47" W x 8.19" (0.97 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for example, how women's lives were changing in response to the economy and the institutions of property ownership and slavery. By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lebsock, Suzanne: - Suzanne Lebsock is a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship and professor of history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her work winning The Free Women of Petersburg received the Bancroft Prize. She lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey. |