{"title":"Bloody Terrain: Freedwomen, Sexuality, and Violence during Reconstruction","authors":"C. Clinton","doi":"10.1515/9780822381884-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381884-009","url":null,"abstract":"continue to unravel layers of evidence surrounding the cataclysmic episode in our past known as Reconstruction. It appears that after Appomattox the conquered Confederacy did not so much surrender, as it refought old, familiar battles on the homefront. Conflict reconfigurated: from the South's streets to its statehouses, in kitchens and courtrooms, terrain remained contested. Although Reconstruction has spawned a vital and prize-winning historical literature, many aspects of the era remain unexplored. And the AfricanAmerican women of this and other generations remain buried beneath historians' disclaimers about sources and neglect, but buried nonetheless. *","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125573104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OfLily, Linda Brent, and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race, Class, and Gender in the Slave South","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780822381884-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381884-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114877578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, Sex, and Self-Evident Truths: The Status of Slave Women during the Era of the American Revolution","authors":"Jacqueline Jones","doi":"10.1215/9780822381884-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381884-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121516158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood","authors":"T. Perdue","doi":"10.1215/9780822381884-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822381884-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132238845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South","authors":"J. Hall","doi":"10.2307/1908226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1908226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125595284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scarlett O'Hara: The Southern Lady as New Woman","authors":"Elizabeth Fox-Genovese","doi":"10.2307/2712525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2712525","url":null,"abstract":"classic, it has done so as much by its popular appeal as by any aesthetic merit. The components of its record-breaking success include all the classic ingredients of popular romance wrapped in the irresistible trappings of historical adventure and glamour-the hurtling saga of sectional catastrophe and rebirth, the nostalgia for a lost civilization, the green Irish eyes of a captivating and unruly Miss, and the langorous, steel-sprung dynamism of her Rhett Butler. But, if the novel fails to transcend its indebtedness to popular culture and to a sentimental female tradition, it nonetheless betrays a complexity that distinguishes it from the standard mass-market historical melodrama.' The extraordinary overnight success of Gone With The Wind testifies to the immediacy with which it engaged the American imagination. Critical acclaim, which likened it to Vanity Fair and War and Peace, as well as popular sales, rapidly established the saga of Scarlett O'Hara as a significant addition to the national culture.2 Scarlett and her world entered the","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114296251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women","authors":"Suzanne Lebsock","doi":"10.2307/2207345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2207345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130554398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women's Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850S","authors":"A. Scott","doi":"10.2307/1918253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1918253","url":null,"abstract":"SOUTHERN women were scarcely to be seen in the political crisis of the 1850s. Historical works dealing with that crucial decade seldom mention a woman unless it is in a footnote citing a significant letter from a male correspondent. In women's own diaries and letters the burgeoning conflict between the North and South almost never inspired comment before John Brown's raid and rarely even then. At the same time, women were a crucial part of one southern response to the mounting outside attack on slavery. The response was an ever more vehement elaboration of what has been called the \"domestic metaphor,\" the image of a beautifully articulated, patriarchal society in which every southerner, black or white, male or female, rich or poor, had an appropriate place and was happy in it. \"The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world,\" George Fitzhugh wrote, describing the happy plantation on which none were oppressed by care.' \"Public opinion,\" he stoutly maintained, \"unites with self-interest, domestic affection, and municipal law to protect the slave. The man who maltreats the weak and dependent, who abuses his authority over wife, children, or slaves is universally detested.\" Slavery, Fitzhugh thought, was an admirable educational system as well as an ideal society.2 What Fitzhugh argued in theory many planters tried to make come true in real life. \"My people\" or \"my black and white family\" were phrases that rolled easily from their tongues and pens. \"I am friend and well wisher both for time and eternity to every one of them . . .\" a North Carolinian wrote to his slave overseer upon the death of a slave, expressing","PeriodicalId":331479,"journal":{"name":"Half Sisters of History","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1974-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125611373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}