The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900
(Part of the Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies Series)
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The southern women's reform movement emerged gradually in the late nineteenth century, several decades behind the northern feminist movement. Jean Friedman explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to disclose the structures that defined -- and limited -- female autonomy in the South. She concludes that the church and family, more than the institution of slavery, inhibited the formation of an antebellum feminist...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0807816442
ISBN13:9780807816448
Release Date:February 1990
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:196 Pages
Weight:2.55 lbs.
Dimensions:6.0" x 9.0"
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