Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

"Drawing on the letters, diaries, memoirs, poetry, and fiction of 500 women belonging to 'the privileged and educated slaveowning class,' 'Mothers of Invention' tracks the myriad ways these women were forced by war to redefine their social role...Faust makes a convincing case that the Civil War forced a particular class of women to rethink the social and domestic order that had long undergirded their world."Drew Gilpin Faust is the author of 'Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)', published 1996 under ISBN 9780807855737 and ISBN 0807855731.