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Article: Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865.(Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865, Women in American History)(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865. By Christine Jacobson Carter. Women in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2006. Pp. xii, 220. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03011-6.)
Continuing the scholarship on antebellum southern women's historical experiences and contributions, Christine Jacobson Carter analyzes a group that is often left out of the historiography--unmarried women. The excellent scholarship on southern women has previously focused on married women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and regions. Carter suggests that we examine the significant population of women who avoided ...