TY - JOUR
T1 - "It will take a man person with you to ... keep the place up"
T2 - Family, gender, and power in confederate common white households
AU - Doyle, Patrick J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article provides fresh insight on the ways in which the American Civil War challenged and destabilized understandings of familial and gendered power within the Confederate States. It is well established that the impressive extent of the Confederacy's military mobilization significantly altered the gendered demographics and dynamics of the home front. While not rejecting this orthodox view, this article does challenge its tendency to overemphasize the extent to which the rural South was sapped of men. In doing so, it not only underscores the important roles some men, most notably those too old for military service, continued to play in ordinary households but also how this pattern unsettled familial power in terms of generation and age as well as gender. Finally, this article endeavors to excavate the more quotidian experience of Confederate common white families and, in order to do so, utilizes three microbiographies of specific households from the state of South Carolina.
AB - This article provides fresh insight on the ways in which the American Civil War challenged and destabilized understandings of familial and gendered power within the Confederate States. It is well established that the impressive extent of the Confederacy's military mobilization significantly altered the gendered demographics and dynamics of the home front. While not rejecting this orthodox view, this article does challenge its tendency to overemphasize the extent to which the rural South was sapped of men. In doing so, it not only underscores the important roles some men, most notably those too old for military service, continued to play in ordinary households but also how this pattern unsettled familial power in terms of generation and age as well as gender. Finally, this article endeavors to excavate the more quotidian experience of Confederate common white families and, in order to do so, utilizes three microbiographies of specific households from the state of South Carolina.
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U2 - 10.1093/jsh/shaa047
DO - 10.1093/jsh/shaa047
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85116369206
SN - 0022-4529
VL - 55
SP - 127
EP - 148
JO - Journal of Social History
JF - Journal of Social History
IS - 1
ER -