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I agree with Andrew, though Whites supports Kari's argument in chapter 3. I think that their faith in Christianity made it easier for women to resign to their roles as subordinates. They could accept their husbands' infidelity or deaths or their family's sudden fall out of society or wealth due to their husbands' absence with a "Christian Resignation." - Celia | I agree with Andrew, though Whites supports Kari's argument in chapter 3. I think that their faith in Christianity made it easier for women to resign to their roles as subordinates. They could accept their husbands' infidelity or deaths or their family's sudden fall out of society or wealth due to their husbands' absence with a "Christian Resignation." - Celia | ||
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| + | I liked how Whites addressed several general historical misconceptions throughout. One of the biggest I noticed was that historians only seems to study women in "gender studies" and African-Americans in "race studies." I also saw the reliance of southern women on religion during the war years. Perhaps it was the Civil War that popularized and mainstreamed religion.--Amanda | ||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
