Scarlett's Sisters

副标题: Young Women in the Old South

ISBN: 9780807831014

出版社: The University of North Carolina Press

出版年: 2007-03-19

页数: 374

定价: USD 39.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.