America's Civil War
History 393
Study Questions
Professor John C. Willis
 
 
The War at Home

 

1.  What sorts of "necessity" made Southern gentry women "mothers of invention"? 

2.  Did Southern women welcome war-time changes?   How do we know? 

3.  Were the women Drew Faust studies living according to patriarchal conventions, separate spheres ideology, or something else?