Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

"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.Faust, Drew Gilpin is the author of 'Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War', published 1997 under ISBN 9780679781042 and ISBN 0679781048.