Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. Ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners—elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans—envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted long beyond 1877 and involved all southerners and every aspect of life.
| ISBN: | 9780252066009 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 1997 |
| Author: | Laura F. Edwards |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas |