The Confederate Belle
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826214649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorGiselle Roberts is Research Associate in the Department of History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
"Great primary source" according to A.Cole. This is a wonderful first hand account of what a person went through during the Civil War. If you are needing a primaray source this book is it.
Giselle Roberts is Research Associate in the Department of History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Southern belles faced a different, yet equally daunting, task. By drawing upon this powerful concept, young ladies ensured the basic preservation of an ideology of privilege. Their unique Confederate bellehoods would ultimately shape the ways in which they viewed themselves and the changed social landscape during the conflict—and after it.. They found themselves caught between antebellum traditions of honor and of gentility, a binary patriotic feminine ideal and wartime reality.Rather than simply sacrificing their socialization for patriotic womanhood, belles drew upon southern honor to strengthen their understanding of themselves as young Confederate women. While historians have examined the struggles and challenges that confronted the Southern plantation mistress during the American Civil War, until now no one has considered the ways in which the conflict shaped the lives of elite young women, otherwise known as belles. They even used honor to frame their relationship to the cause. As menfolk answered the call to arms, southern matrons had to redefine their roles as mistresses and wives. In the plantation culture of the antebellum South, belles enhanced their family’s status through their appearance and accomplishments and, later, by marrying well.During the Amer