Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South
Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South
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南方女性：旧南方的黑人和白人
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10.2307/2210028
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发表时间：
1993
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S. McMillen
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作者：
S. McMillen
麦克米伦总结了对南方妇女生活的最新思考，无论是白色还是黑人，精英还是普通人。这本书最好的特点之一是作者有能力把所有这些妇女的生活编织在同一章中。精彩的导言之后是四个章节，分别是家庭生活和婚姻，生育和育儿，社会关注：教育和宗教，以及工作中的妇女。麦克米伦指出，许多神话仍然围绕着南北战争前的南方妇女。他们是比许多小说和历史中描绘的女人复杂得多的人。当然，他们不能被归为一个群体，因为他们根据时间、地区、种族和阶级而不同，但都受到生活在农村、农业和奴隶社会的影响。在这个社会里，妇女应该顺从、勤劳、忠于家庭;每个人都有自己的位置，妇女应该知道自己的位置。
McMillen summarises the latest thinking about the lives of women in the South, both white and black, elite and ordinary. One of the best features of the book is the author's ability to weave the lives of all these women together in the same chapters. The excellent introduction is followed by four chapters on Family Life and Marriage, Reproduction and Childrearing, Social Concerns: Education and Religion, and Women at Work. McMillen points out that many myths still surround antebellum Southern women. They were much more complicated people than the women portrayed in many novels and histories. Of course, they cannot be lumped into one group as they differed according to time, region, race, and class, but all were influenced by living in a rural, agricultural, slave society. In this society women were supposed to be submissive and hardworking and devoted to the family and home; each person had a place and women were supposed to know theirs.