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Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction

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Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil War. Ideas about men's and women's roles within households shaped the ways groups of southerners--elite and poor, whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans--envisioned the public arena and their own places in it. By using those on the margins to define the center, Edwards demonstrates that Reconstruction was a complicated process of conflict and negotiation that lasted ...

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Gendered Strife & Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction 1997, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252066009

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