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Introduction : the Civil War as a household war / Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites -- The material world of Mary Todd Lincoln : her households in peace and war / Joan E. Cashin -- Householder and general : Lee's war as a household war / Joseph M. Beilein Jr. -- The divided houses of Ulysses S. Grant / Brooks D. Simpson -- The soldier's dream of home / Jonathan W. White -- "Now I can bear my ills patiently" : the expanding realm of Wisconsin households during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic -- Written on the heart : soldiers' letters, the household supply line, and the relational war / LeeAnn Whites -- A "fearful family quarrel" : the Union assault on southern households as battle strategy / Lisa Tendrich Frank -- War's domestic corollary : Union occupation households in the Civil War South / Margaret Storey -- Creek and Seminole households on the trail of blood on ice / Andrew K. Frank -- "A terrible way to bring up children" : escaped prisoners and the home as site of war / Lorien Foote -- Disordered households : Reconstruction, Klan terror, and the law / Victoria E. Bynum -- Dead husband, dead son : widows, mothers-in-law, and mourning in the Confederacy / Angela Esco Elder -- Stand by your manhood : the United Confederate veterans and the rehabilitation of the Southern household / Brian Craig Miller -- Afterword : from household to personhood in America / Stephen Berry.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- French Women in Colonial Missouri, 1750-1805 -- Esther and Her Sisters -- German-Speaking Women in Nineteenth- Century Missouri -- May We as One Family Live in Peace and Harmony -- City Sisters -- The Tale of Two Minors -- The Changing Role of Protection on the Border -- Her Will against Theirs -- Sedalia's Ladies of the Evening -- Domestic Drudges to Dazzling Divas -- We Are Practicable, Sensible Women -- Euphemia B. Koller and the Politics of Insanity in Ralls County, 1921-1927 -- Breaking into Politics -- The Doctor's Wife -- Bibliography of Secondary Works -- Contributors -- Index -- Photo Credits.

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill). And yet the women of America's south iave always defied pat generalization, no more readily forced into facle categories than women in the country's other regions.Never before has a book of southern history so successfully integrated the experiences of white and non-white women. Among the myriad subjects addressed in the book are black women's suffrage, the economic realities of Choctaw women, female kin and female slaves in planters's wills, the northern myth of the rebel girl, second wave feminism in the South, and southern lesbians. Bringing to light the lives of Cherokee women, Appalachian "coal daughters," and Jewish women in the South, the essays all but one published in this book for the first time, ensure that monolithic representations of southern womanhood are a thing of the past.Filling a crucial gap in southern history and women's history, Women of the American South is a valuable reference and pedagogical aid for a wide range of scholars and students