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Confederate Women and Yankee Men

A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust
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When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain.
In this UNC Press Short, excerpted from Mother's of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust explores the legendary hostility of Confederate women toward Yankee soldiers. From daily acts of belligerence to murder and espionage, these women struggled not only with the Yankee enemy in their midst but with the genteel ideal of white womanhood that was at odds with their wartime acts of resistance.
UNC Press Civil War Shorts excerpt compelling, shorter narratives from selected best-selling books published by the University of North Carolina Press and present them as engaging, quick reads. Produced exclusively in ebook format, these shorts present essential concepts, defining moments, and concise introductions to topics. They are intended to stir the imagination and encourage further exploration of the original publications from which these works are drawn.

  • Creators

  • Series

    UNC Press E-Book Shorts

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 15, 2012

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780807838525

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780807838525
      • File size: 2544 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 23, 2013
      A wild best friend from the poet’s teen years, “your hoarder aunt,” “my young mother… brunette/ in a blue velour day robe,” a “Tooth Fairy Pillow,” and “a dress that clings/ like a Jackson night, late summer—strapless,// black crepe”: the people from a family romance, and the objects that focus their memories, make this compelling second outing from Journey (If Birds Gather Your Hair For Nesting) at once a delight for the senses and a high-speed trip through her past. Journey packs her poems with long sentences and their emotional overload: “When I’m the girl who daydreams// her own funeral, then asks you about the salivary/ habits of ponies, that hissing Shetland,// Princess, muzzles up.” So boldly rendered, such sketches from memory—some from long ago, some from recent travels with a husband or fiancée—make Journey at her finest a kind of Southern Gothic answer to Laura Kasischke, with the same zigzag free verse, the same connections to her younger selves. At the same time Journey’s special topics—extended family, animals, insomnia, folklore, rendered in animated contemporary diction—make her verse no dead ringer for anyone else’s.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

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