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    Has anyone seen _Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women of the Old South_, by Anya Jabour, UNC Press, 2007, yet?

    "Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux, Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned, questioned, and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady."

    _The Confederate Belle_, by Giselle Roberts, came out in 2003, University of Missouri, and I'm wondering what difference there might be.

    Vicki Betts

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    Re: Scarlett's Sisters

    Ms. Betts,

    I recommend in a similar vein:

    Scarlett's Women: Gone With The Wind & Its Female Fans by Helen Taylor, 1989, ISBN 0-8135-1480. Helen Taylor "identifies different kinds of response at particular historical moments (especially WW2) & through the past five decades of women of different classes, races, & generations."

    Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust, 1996, ISBN 0-8078-2255-8.

    Regards,
    [B][I]Edwin Carl Erwin[/I][/B]

    descendent of:
    [B]Tobias Levin Hays[/B]
    16th Texas Infantry, Co. I, Walker's Texas Division
    22nd Brigade, "Mesquite Company", Texas Rangers
    &
    [B]J. W. Tally[/B]
    4th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade[B][/B]

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