Stepping lively in place: the not-married, free women of civil-war-era natchez, mississippi
Auteur :
Broussard, Joyce Linda
Éditeur :
University of Georgia Press
ISBN :
9780820345499
Date de publication :
15 juil. 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Broussard looks at all types of single women—black and white, law-abiding and criminal—including spinsters, widows, divorcees, and abandoned women. She demonstrates the nuanced degrees to which these women understood that the legal, cultural, and social traditions of their place and time could alternately constrain or empower them.