Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Racial, Ethnic, and Class Disjunctures among Appalachian Women: 1. No gendered sisterhood: ethnic and religious conflict among Euro-American women 2. Not a shared patriarchal space: imperialism, racism, and cultural persistence of indigenous Appalachian women 3. Not a shared sisterhood of subordination: racism, slavery, and resistance by black Appalachian females 4. Not even sisters among their own kind: the centrality of class divisions among Appalachian women Part II. Structural and Social Contradictions between Women's Productive and Reproductive Labors: 5. The myth of male farming and women's agricultural labor 6. The myth of separate spheres and women's non-agricultural labor 7. Family as privilege: public regulation of non-patriarchal households 8. Motherhood as privilege: patriarchal intervention into women's reproductive labors.

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