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- catalog abstract "This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, the author sets before us the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.".
- catalog contributor b1215519.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Social life and customs 1775-1865.".
- catalog created "c1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "c1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1982.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [295]-323.".
- catalog description "Hidden lives -- Women in the land of cotton -- Slave of slaves -- Circle of kin -- The day to fix my fate -- The moral bind -- The fallen woman -- Equally their due -- Precious and precarious in body and soul -- Every woman was an island -- The curse of slavery -- The sexual dynamics of slavery -- Foucalt meets mandingo.".
- catalog description "This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, the author sets before us the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.".
- catalog extent "xix, 331 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Plantation mistress.".
- catalog identifier "0394516869".
- catalog isFormatOf "Plantation mistress.".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "c1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "Plantation mistress.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Social life and customs 1775-1865.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog subject "HQ1438.A13 C58 1982".
- catalog subject "Patriarchy Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Plantation owners' spouses Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Slaveholders Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Women plantation owners Southern States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Hidden lives -- Women in the land of cotton -- Slave of slaves -- Circle of kin -- The day to fix my fate -- The moral bind -- The fallen woman -- Equally their due -- Precious and precarious in body and soul -- Every woman was an island -- The curse of slavery -- The sexual dynamics of slavery -- Foucalt meets mandingo.".
- catalog title "The plantation mistress : woman's world in the old South / Catherine Clinton.".
- catalog type "text".