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The Southern belle archetype is characterized by Southern hospitality, a cultivation of beauty, and a flirtatious yet chaste demeanor. [2] For example, Sallie Ward , who was born into the planter class of Kentucky in the Antebellum South, was called a Southern belle.
- Antebellum Women
- Breaking The Stereotype
- Interactions with The Wounded
- Yankee Nurses
- Conclusion
The life of a plantation mistress was constructed to be one of leisure. Unlike their counterparts in the North, young ladies in the South had no opportunities to earn wages on their own, thus the only means by which to leave the family home was through marriage. Young women in the northern states; however, were entering the work force in factories ...
Many belles responded to the call with a sense of duty and pride, while an even greater number deemed this type of work to be unfit for a lady. Kate Kumming, a dedicated Confederate nurse, recalled being told that the hospitals were no places for women and that was not considered “respectable to go into one.” In April 1862, Kumming arrived in Corin...
After being wounded in battle, Alexander Hunter was treated at a Petersburg hospital. He briefly described rows of “extended wasted figures burning with fever and raving from the agony of splintered bones,” and the “sickening odor of medicine, the nephritic air shut in by the closed windows.”Confederate nurses dealt with these sights, sounds, and s...
When first offered the job of superintendent at Chimborazo, Pember thought it was a “startling proposition to a woman used to all the comforts of luxurious life.”Pember and many other women of this ilk soon uncovered the strength which they were endowed. Women of the North had grown more confident by exerting their strength and as a result had beco...
While Dix and Livermore were actively pursuing social reform and education during the 1840’s, Mrs. Virginia Clay of Tuscaloosa, Alabama was attending balls. She described scenes of “belles of the town” looking “resplendent in fresh and fashionable toilettes.” Twenty years hence, Phoebe Yates Pember, who was of the same social standing as Mrs. Clay,...
29 de jul. de 2015 · By: Erin Blakemore. July 29, 2015. 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Modern-day debate over the Confederacy centers on the dangerous myths upheld by things like the Confederate battle flag, which is used both as a racist symbol and a beacon of a “simpler” Southern society by its proponents today.
Transformation of the Southern Belle, 1840-1880 761 demonstrate a perception of the growing strength within Southern women and their burgeoning desire to create their own definition of self. By analyzing the social prescription of religion and education, increasing patterns of female control and empowerment can be seen beginning in the 1840s ...
Southern belles: romanticism and racism Nicola Onyett examines the enduring and problematic trope of the Southern belle in Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Help English Review
The myths of southern women include mammies, belles, ladies, and mulattos. In southern fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir, these categories of women are both perpetuated and disrupted. Much southern literature also portrays these stereotypes as independent women deliberately confronting the systems of oppression including patriarchy, slavery ...
12 de jul. de 2023 · Every summer, young women from around the world eagerly sign up to become that iconic and romantic image of southern identity: the southern belle, replete with hoop skirt, hat and gloves,...
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