The predicament of traditional femininity : a gender material culture analysis of Civil War blockade runners

The predicament of traditional femininity : a gender material culture analysis of Civil War blockade runners / by Emily Anne Schwalbe.

Author/creator	Schwalbe, Emily Anne author.
Other author/creator	Harris, Lynn B. degree supervisor.
Other author/creator	East Carolina University. Department of History.
Format	Theses and dissertations, Electronic, and Book
Publication Info	[Greenville, N.C.] : [East Carolina University], 2016.
Description	177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, maps)
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Subject(s)	Material culture--Southern States --History. Social status--Southern States --History. Sex role--Southern States --History. United States--History --Civil War, 1861-1865 --Women.

Summary	This thesis will seek to examine the tension between nineteenth-century Southern gender expectations of upper-class femininity contrasted with the necessities of wartime and determine if this tension is evident in the material record by analyzing the cargo of Confederate blockade runners entering the affluent ports of Wilmington and Charleston. By examining the cargo from blockade runners, as well as analyzing historical records, research will lead to conclusions about what women wanted to buy during the Civil War. It will compare these demands with the new notions of simplicity and sacrifice that theoretically defined the Confederacy, in order to better understand gender expectations during this period.
General note	Presented to the faculty of the Department of History.
General note	Advisor: Lynn Harris.
General note	Title from PDF t.p. (viewed February 6, 2017).
Dissertation note	M.A. East Carolina University 2016.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Technical details	System requirements: Adobe Reader.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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