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I liked the part about Turner Clanton who offered to sell meal below market value to the struggling wives of soldiers. I was surprised at how the lower class women had the nerve to respond sarcastically, criticizing Clanton for not doing enough. They expected him to provide more kinds of food, not just meal, and also to deliver it. I guess they were pissed off, since their society was based on this contract that men were dominant and protective and the women were dependent and obedient. All of a sudden the men were not holding up their part of the bargain and it seems like the women were pretty irritated. -- Rebecca | I liked the part about Turner Clanton who offered to sell meal below market value to the struggling wives of soldiers. I was surprised at how the lower class women had the nerve to respond sarcastically, criticizing Clanton for not doing enough. They expected him to provide more kinds of food, not just meal, and also to deliver it. I guess they were pissed off, since their society was based on this contract that men were dominant and protective and the women were dependent and obedient. All of a sudden the men were not holding up their part of the bargain and it seems like the women were pretty irritated. -- Rebecca | ||
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| + | I found chapter 3 to be very interesting. I had never really considered the different impacts that men going to war would have on women of the upper and lower classes. I was also somewhat surprised by the treatment wives of common confederate soldiers received from upper class wives of planters, especially as their spouses were fighting together for the Confederate cause. That wealthy women would turn to their dependence on men to highlight their status over poor white women, clearly illustrates the amount of dependence women had on men in the Southern society. I believe that this chapter illustrates that for women in Augusta, Georgia, class often came before gender. --Sarah Gardner | ||
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