| Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South Contributor(s): Dunaway, Wilma A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521886198 ISBN-13: 9780521886192 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2008 Annotation: The nature of female labor in the antebellum Appalachian South was shaped by race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 305.489 |
| LCCN: 2007023441 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.47" W x 9.19" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent females that handicap antebellum women's histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a woman's work was determined by her race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. Concomitantly, the degree to which laws shielded her family from disruption depended upon her race, her class, and the degree to which she adhered to patriarchal conventions about work and cross-racial liaisons. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dunaway, Wilma A.: - Wilma A. Dunaway was born into an interracial family in east Tennessee in 1944. For more than two decades, she worked in civil rights and public services organizations in the Appalachian region. At present, she is an Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dunaway is a specialist in international slavery studies, Native American studies, Appalachian studies, and world-system analysis. Her dissertation about the incorporation of Southern Appalachia into the capitalist world economy was awarded a Wilson Fellowship and the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. She has won several awards for her previous three works on Appalachia and slavery, including two Weatherford Awards. Her interdisciplinary work has appeared in numerous history and social science journals. |