Read Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Angela Boswell

4.9/5 (14259 ratings)

Description:Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837–1873 follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars.The world Boswell reconstructs allows readers a more egalitarian, multicultural look at life: working class and poor women, both black and white, join their more affluent sisters in the pages of the Colorado County, Texas, courthouse records. Those same records reveal that the men of that world—most of them planters or farmers, the majority of them owning at least a few slaves—are a force for women to reckon with, both in public and at home. The almost constant presence of men in the home and their need to uphold the dominant, slave-holding hierarchyproduced a patriarchy more pervasive than that experienced by women in the urban north.Eminently readable and accessible to scholars and general readers alike, Her Act and Deed represents a welcome addition to the classroom, to the scholar's library, and to Texas history collections.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce). To get started finding Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1585441287

Description: Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell's Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837–1873 follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women's roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars.The world Boswell reconstructs allows readers a more egalitarian, multicultural look at life: working class and poor women, both black and white, join their more affluent sisters in the pages of the Colorado County, Texas, courthouse records. Those same records reveal that the men of that world—most of them planters or farmers, the majority of them owning at least a few slaves—are a force for women to reckon with, both in public and at home. The almost constant presence of men in the home and their need to uphold the dominant, slave-holding hierarchyproduced a patriarchy more pervasive than that experienced by women in the urban north.Eminently readable and accessible to scholars and general readers alike, Her Act and Deed represents a welcome addition to the classroom, to the scholar's library, and to Texas history collections.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce). To get started finding Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873 (Volume 3) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

More Books

Women in Texas History (Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation)

Women in Texas History (Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation)

The Educated Empath: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Sensitive Souls for Self-Care, Protection, and Healing (The Educated Empath Series Book 1)

The Educated Empath: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Sensitive Souls for Self-Care, Protection, and Healing (The Educated Empath Series Book 1)

Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (Volume 1) (Southern Women)

Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (Volume 1) (Southern Women)

Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi

Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi

The Educated Empath: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Sensitive Souls for Self-Care, Protection, & Healing (The Educated Empath Series)

The Educated Empath: A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Sensitive Souls for Self-Care, Protection, & Healing (The Educated Empath Series)

Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless.: An article from: Journal of Southern History

Arkansas, 1800-1860: Remote and Restless.: An article from: Journal of Southern History

Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)

Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)

Luna Station Quarterly Issue 040

Luna Station Quarterly Issue 040

Major Problems in Texas History

Major Problems in Texas History