 | Beyond the Household: Women''s Place in the Early South, 1700–1835 Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern... Cynthia A. Kierner is Professor of History at George Mason University. She is the author of Traders and Gentlefolk: The Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790 , also from Cornell; Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America ; Revolutionary America ; and Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives . |
