Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Discusses how class, race, and gender shaped women's experiences in the South

Black and White Women of the Old South

Within the Plantation Household

Eugene D. Genovese

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. A great many of the slaveholding men and women were intelligent, honorable, and pious; yet, these very people, admirable in so many ways, presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. Even now, there is much to be learned from their moral and political reflections on their times--and ours.

History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview

The Mind of the Master Class

Theda Perdue

Virginia Bernhard

Betty Brandon

The romance of the South has long been painted with the broad brush of partial truths and myths creating images of white-gloved ladies and old black mammies. Now, the complex and constantly evolving identities of southern women emerge from the shadows of history in a book that challenges these traditional assumptions.

Histories and Identities

Southern Women

In arguing that feminism has neither adequately acknowledged its ties to individualism nor squarely faced the extent to which many of its campaigns for social justice are based on the insistence of rights for the individual over good of the community, thi

A Critique of Individualism

Feminism Without Illusions

The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.

Stating that contemporary feminists have pursued high-profile political causes at the cost of everyday women's problems, a study based on polls and interviews calls for a refocusing of feminist concerns. Tour.

How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women

"Feminism is Not the Story of My Life"

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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