- Shopping Bag ( 0 items )
From the Publisher
"It is . . . Jabour's evocative account of the cultural complexities and paradoxes with which young southern women struggled in their becoming that makes Scarlett's Sisters such an important piece of scholarship."-Journal of American Studies
"Numerous quotations from letters and diaries, along with thought-provoking illustrations, provide color, authentic voice and a certain freshness to the book."
—Mississippi Quarterly
"Excellent. . . . Compellingly written and intriguing. . . . Southern, women's and general historians should read [it]."
— Journal of Southern History
"Jabour knows that the young women were both privileged and subordinate, oppressors and oppressed. . . . This well written and superbly illustrated book is an admirable introduction to their world."
— American Historical Review
"Well written, meticulously researched. . . . Fine, refreshing contribution to the literature on gender in the early republic."
— Journal of the Early Republic
"Extensive research into the personal papers of more than three hundred young women convincingly demonstrates the self-conscious nature of these girls' transformations."
— Georgia Historical Quarterly
"Nicely written, clearly argued, and complemented by good illustrations. . . . An admirable book with a strong argument that invites all historians of the nineteenth century South to rethink the confines of elite white womanhood."
— North Carolina Historical Review
Freshly written and meticulously researched, this book is full of women whose voices are clear and arresting.
Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University
Overview
Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a ...