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Author(s): Angela Boswell
ISBN(s): 9781585449293, 1585449296
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 1.37 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1585449296 
ISBN 13: 9781585449293
Author: Angela Boswell

Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Angela Boswell’s Her Act and Deed: Women’s Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837–1873 follows the threads of Southern women’s lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her unique approach to exploring women’s roles in a South that spanned the frontier, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras illuminates the truths of the feminine world of those periods, and her analysis of this set of complete public records for those years challenges the theory of men’s and women’s separate spheres of influence, as advanced by many scholars.

The world Boswell reconstructs allows readers a more egalitarian, multicultural look at life: working class and poor women, both black and white, join their more affluent sisters in the pages of the Colorado County, Texas, courthouse records. Those same records reveal that the men of that world—most of them planters or farmers, the majority of them owning at least a few slaves—are a force for women to reckon with, both in public and at home. The almost constant presence of men in the home and their need to uphold the dominant, slave-holding hierarchy

produced a patriarchy more pervasive than that experienced by women in the urban north.

Eminently readable and accessible to scholars and general readers alike, Her Act and Deed represents a welcome addition to the classroom, to the scholar’s library, and to Texas history collections.

Her Act and Deed Women s Lives in a Rural Southern County 1837 1873 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Setting the Scene: Rural Southern Society, 1837–1873

  • The Social and Economic Landscape

  • Community and Family Structures

  • Gender Roles in the Rural South

Chapter 2: Women’s Legal Status and Rights

  • Property Rights and Inheritance

  • Marriage and Family Law

  • Women and the Court System

Chapter 3: Daily Life and Work

  • Household and Agricultural Labor

  • Women’s Roles in Farming and Economy

  • Domestic Work and Childrearing

Chapter 4: Religion, Morality, and Social Expectations

  • Religious Life and Women’s Participation

  • Moral Codes and Community Standards

  • Women’s Influence in Religious Spheres

Chapter 5: Education and Literacy

  • Access to Education in Rural Areas

  • Literacy Rates and Reading Habits

  • Women as Educators and Learners

Chapter 6: Women and Politics: Influence and Activism

  • Informal Political Roles

  • Women During the Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Community Leadership and Social Reform

Chapter 7: Health, Childbirth, and Medicine

  • Medical Practices and Midwifery

  • Childbirth and Maternal Care

  • Health Challenges in Rural Communities

Chapter 8: Social Networks and Community Life

  • Family, Friends, and Neighbors

  • Social Gatherings and Women’s Organizations

  • Networks of Support and Solidarity

Chapter 9: Change and Continuity: Postwar Women’s Lives

  • Impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Economic and Social Adjustments

  • Women’s Changing Roles and Opportunities

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