HIST 4071 : Antebellum South 2 (Test 2)
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***much about the memory of the antebellum south is clouded with romanticism, including women. Scarlett o"hara is not the accurate archetype: place of women. Women were in a distinctly secondary position. Becoming a mother and wife were women"s. Louisa mccord: wrote about political things, relationship between the sexes: women must be submissive; women are made for duty, not for fame ; women were in charge of religion in the house. Most women are too busy with their day-to-day lives => couldn"t really worry about politics. Divorce: every state had a divorce law except for south carolina, originally, you had to get an act of legislature to get a divorce, slowly, divorce eventually transferred to a judicial hearing. Judges were protective of females: however, divorce was a very negative social stigma, divorce isn"t really an option except in extraordinary circumstances. South did not use birth control techniques: wives would go stay with extended families.
