Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South New Edition

“Anya Jabour makes a compelling case in Scarlett’s Sisters that age and generation are as important as class, race, and gender as categories of analysis, and that adolescent girls and young women are particularly situated to shed light on many of the questions southern historians have been debating for decades. . . . This important book should generate discussion. It is highly readable and clear, with many wonderful quotations.” — Journal of American History

“Excellent. . . . Compellingly written and intriguing. . . . Southern, women’s and general historians should read [it].” — Journal of Southern History

“Extensive research into the personal papers of more than three hundred young women convincingly demonstrates the self-conscious nature of these girls’ transformations.” — Georgia Historical Quarterly

“Jabour knows that the young women were both privileged and subordinate, oppressors and oppressed. . . . This well written and superbly illustrated book is an admirable introduction to their world.” — American Historical Review

“Nicely written, clearly argued, and complemented by good illustrations. . . . An admirable book with a strong argument that invites all historians of the nineteenth century South to rethink the confines of elite white womanhood.” — North Carolina Historical Review

“Numerous quotations from letters and diaries, along with thought-provoking illustrations, provide color, authentic voice and a certain freshness to the book.” — Mississippi Quarterly

“Thoughtful and well written. . . . [A] challenge to the popular dismissal of young women as worthy of separate historical study.” — Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

“Well written, meticulously researched. . . . Fine, refreshing contribution to the literature on gender in the early republic.” — Journal of the Early Republic

“Well-written, provocative, and thoroughly researched. . . . Complicates the existing historiography and suggests a promising avenue of scholarship with its focus on female youth culture during the antebellum era.” — Southern Historian