Free Women of Petersburg

Name: Free Women of Petersburg
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
SKU: 9780393952643-V
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By Suzanne Lebsock

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Focusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for example, how women's lives were changing in response to the economy and the institutions of property ownership and slavery.

By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 350
Release Date:: 1985-08-17
Publication Date:: 1985-08-01
Publisher:: W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0393952649
ISBN13:: 9780393952643
Weight:: 440 g
Height:: 139 cm
Width:: 208 cm
Thickness:: 27 cm

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