| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.5

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Canada and the United States

Anya Jabour. Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. x, 374. $39.95.

Anya Jabour draws on the personal writings of some 300 young women from across the South to examine the coming-of-age process for elite white females in the antebellum era. Starting from the premise that age—like gender, race, and class—is a definitive category of historical analysis, Jabour perceptively explores how girls became young women and eventually (in most cases) wives and mothers. Her most important contention is that southern girls and young women in various ways resisted the cultural dictates of their region, which sought to render them uniquely powerless, although on marrying they reluctantly exchanged resistance for resignation. By requiring them to be strong and self-reliant, however, the Civil War revived the culture of resistance, at least among younger women, who, unlike their elders, were likely to be publicly active, assertive, and somewhat more independent in the postwar era.

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