Artikel
Broken reeds and competent farmers : slaveholding widows in the southeastern United States, 1783 - 1861
Verfasst von:
Wood, Kristen E.
in:
Journal of women's history
Bloomington:
2001
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34 - 57 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wood, Kristen E. |
| In: | Journal of women's history |
| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| "Broken reeds and competent farmers" explores the gendered work and self-representations of slaveholding widows in the southeastern United States during the early nineteenth century. Often associated with Margeret Mitchell's fabeld character Scarlett O'Hara by nonacademics, these widows illuminate the flexibility of elite southern gender roles and undermine the region's reputation for maintaining unussually rigid and static forms of patriarchy.Throughout virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, slalveholding widows brought recognizably feminine attributes, like wifely obedience, maternal devotion, domesticity, and widow's weeds - the all-black costume of first mourning - into the narmatively male arenas of agricultural production and financial management. Doing so enabled widows to negotiate not only with slaves, oberseers, and relatives, but also with complex and contradictory notions of the duties and the identities appropriate to women of their class and race. Neither " masters" nor "deputy husbands", slaveholding widows derived a range of powers - from authority to coercion - from their status as independent inferiors in the white man's world of household management | |
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