Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Author: Drew Gilpin FaustEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-25
ISBN: 0807855731
Number of pages: 326
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Reviews of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Book Review: Academic, fragmented, only a useful starting point
Summary: 2 Stars
In the preface, Faust wonders if after years of acadmic writing she will be able to produce a work for other audiences. The answer is no. She manages to take interesting information and compelling quotes from original sources and kill their effect with the dizzyingly dull conventions of academic-speak. I gave this book two stars instead of one because after taking aspirin for the headache it induced, I had to admit that I had learned something, even if it was only a few broad generalities. The book also will serve as a location guide for her original source material, so there is a little value in that, too. Hence, two stars.
Summary of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. Faust chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.General Books
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