In this engaging study, Christine Jacobson Carter uncovers the fruitful and interesting lives of single women--and the attitudes toward them--in the bustling urban centers of nineteenth-century Savannah and Charleston.
Carter's focus is on educated, financially secure white women who joined in the culture's celebration of domesticity even though they had not married. Making effective use of contemporary fiction, advice literature, diaries, and letters to, from, and about single women, Carter shows that such women valued independence and female friendships and were in turn valued for family and community service. She also explores their attitudes toward personal fulfillment, the relationships that sustained (and sometimes tormented) them, and the impact of the Civil War as well as the southern and urban aspects of their public and private identities.
| ISBN: | 9780252076312 |
| Publication date: | 7th January 2009 |
| Author: | Christine Jacobson Carter |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Women in American History |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Gender studies: women and girls |
In this engaging study, Christine Jacobson Carter uncovers the fruitful and interesting lives of single women--and the attitudes toward them--in the bustling urban centers of nineteenth-century Savannah and Charleston.Carter's focus is on educated, financially secure white women who joined in the culture's celebration of domesticity even though they had not married. Making effective use of contemporary fiction, advice literature, diaries, and letters to, from, and about single women, Carter shows that such women valued independence and female friendships and were in turn valued for family and community service.
Southern Single Blessedness features in the following genres: History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls
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Southern Single Blessedness was written by Christine Jacobson Carter and published by University of Illinois Press
Southern Single Blessedness has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Women in American History series
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