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- catalog abstract "In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences and behavior reflected and influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state and region. Her work expands our knowledge of black and white women by studying them outside the plantation setting. Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women. Some appeared in court as abused, sometimes abusive, wives, as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent assaults, or as participants in illicit, interracial relationships. During the Civil War, women frequently were cited for theft, trespassing, or rioting, usually in an effort to gain goods made scarce by war. Some women were charged with harboring evaders or deserters of the Confederacy, an act that reflected their conviction that the Confederacy was destroying them. These politically powerless unruly women threatened to disrupt the underlying social structure of the Old South, which depended upon the services and cooperation of all women. Bynum examines the effects of women's social and sexual behavior on the dominant society and shows the ways in which power flowed between the private and public spheres. Whether wives or unmarried, enslaved or free, women were active agents of the society's ordering and dissolution.".
- catalog contributor b3572737.
- catalog coverage "North Carolina Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women. Some appeared in court as abused, sometimes abusive, wives, as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent assaults, or as participants in illicit, interracial relationships. During the Civil War, women frequently were cited for theft, trespassing, or rioting, usually in an effort to gain goods made scarce by war. Some women were charged with harboring evaders or deserters of the Confederacy, an act that reflected their conviction that the Confederacy was destroying them.".
- catalog description "In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences and behavior reflected and influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state and region. Her work expands our knowledge of black and white women by studying them outside the plantation setting.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-223) and index.".
- catalog description "Race, class, and gender in three Piedmont counties -- White womanhood, black womanhood : ideals and realities in a Piedmont slaveholding society -- The limits of paternalism : property, divorce, and domestic relations -- Punishing deviant women : the state as patriarch -- The struggle to survive : the lives of slave, free black, and poor white women during the Civil War -- "The women is as bad as the men" : women's participation in the inner Civil War.".
- catalog description "These politically powerless unruly women threatened to disrupt the underlying social structure of the Old South, which depended upon the services and cooperation of all women. Bynum examines the effects of women's social and sexual behavior on the dominant society and shows the ways in which power flowed between the private and public spheres. Whether wives or unmarried, enslaved or free, women were active agents of the society's ordering and dissolution.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 233 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Unruly women.".
- catalog identifier "0807820164 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "080784361X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unruly women.".
- catalog isPartOf "Gender & American culture".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Unruly women.".
- catalog spatial "North Carolina Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "North Carolina".
- catalog subject "305.4/09756 20".
- catalog subject "Deviant behavior History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Female offenders North Carolina History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "HQ1438.N6 B96 1992".
- catalog subject "Social control History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women North Carolina History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Race, class, and gender in three Piedmont counties -- White womanhood, black womanhood : ideals and realities in a Piedmont slaveholding society -- The limits of paternalism : property, divorce, and domestic relations -- Punishing deviant women : the state as patriarch -- The struggle to survive : the lives of slave, free black, and poor white women during the Civil War -- "The women is as bad as the men" : women's participation in the inner Civil War.".
- catalog title "Unruly women : the politics of social and sexual control in the old South / Victoria E. Bynum.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".