Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Race, Sex, and Self-Evident Truths: The Status of Slave Women during the Era of the American Revolution 18
6. Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood 36
7. Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South 56
8. Women's Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850S 76
9. OfLily, Linda Brent, and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race, Class, and Gender in the Slave South 93
10. Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women 110
11. Bloody Terrain: Freedwomen, Sexuality, and Violence during Reconstruction 136
12. Scarlett O'Hara: The Southern Lady as New Woman 154
13. Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South 180
14. Black Power: Catalyst for Feminism 224