Title Confederate daughters : coming of age during the Civil War / Victoria E. Ott.

Publication Info.	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 215 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Our Bright Youth""; 2. The Politicized Belle; 3. The Self-Sufficient Daughter; 4. The Perfect Woman; 5. The Confederate Belle Ideal; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover.
Summary	Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fulfillment of female duty and to the racial order of the slaveholding South, an institution that defined their status and afforded them material privileges. Author Victoria E. Ott discusses how the loyalty of young Southern women to the fledgling nation, born out of a conserv.
Subject	American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
	Young women -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
	Women, White -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
	Teenage girls -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
	Group identity -- Confederate States of America -- History.
	Nationalism -- Confederate States of America -- History.
	Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
	Young women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Teenage girls -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
	Group identity (OCoLC)fst00948442
	Nationalism (OCoLC)fst01033832
	Social aspects (OCoLC)fst01354981
	Social history (OCoLC)fst01122498
	Teenage girls (OCoLC)fst01145412
	Teenage girls -- Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01145452
	Women (OCoLC)fst01176568
	Young women (OCoLC)fst01183301
	Young women -- Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01183328
	Southern States (OCoLC)fst01244550
	United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
	United States -- Confederate States of America (OCoLC)fst01205435
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	History (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Ott, Victoria E., 1971- Confederate daughters. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008 9780809328284 0809328283 (DLC) 2007020904 (OCoLC)137325098
ISBN	9781435663565 (electronic bk.)
	143566356X (electronic bk.)
	9780809387014 (electronic bk.)

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