Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South by The University of North Carolina Press

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Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South by The University of North Carolina Press Excellent New Information
What an excellent book and what a treat to find a new source of information, not previously published, about women in the antebellum south. To anyone familiar with Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Anne Firor Scott and others, I highly recommend this book.
Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South by The University of North Carolina Press Product Description
Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.