Publications of Laura F Edwards :chronological combined bibtex listing:
Laura F Edwards
Books
- Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000). paper back ed., 2004
- Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (University of Illinois Press, 1997). Excerpted in: Major Problems in the History of the American South, 2nd ed., edited by Paul Escott, David R. Goldfield, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, and Sally G. McMillan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999); A History of Gender in America: Essays, Documents, and Articles, edited by Sylvia D. Hoffert (New York: Prentice Hall, 2003).
Books in Progress
- The People and Their Peace: The Re-Constitution of Inequality and Difference in the Post-Revolutionary U.S. South (2009).
Journal Articles
- "Status Without Rights: African American and the Tangled History of Law and Goverance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South." American Historical Review (April, 2007): 365-393. To be republished as "Reconstruction and North Carolina Women’s Tangled History with Law and Governance" in Paul D. Escott ed., Reconstruction in North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
- "Enslaved Women and the Law: The Paradoxes of Subordination in the Post-Revolutionary Carolinas." Slavery & Abolition 26 (August, 2005): 305-323. To be republished in Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds., Women in Slavery: The Modern Atlantic, vol. 2. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007), pp. 128-51.
- "Law, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in the Antebellum South." Journal of Southern History 65 (November, 1999): 733-70. republished in Nancy Bercaw, ed., Gender and the Southern Body Politic (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000), 63-86; to be republished in J. William Harris, ed., The Old South: new Studies of Society and Culture (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2008).
- "The Problem of Dependency: African Americans, Labor Relations, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South." Agricultural History 72 (Spring, 1998): 313-40.
- "The Disappearance of Susan Daniel and Henderson Cooper: Gender and Narratives of Political Conflict in the Reconstruction-Era U.S. South." Feminist Studies 22 (Summer, 1996): 363-386. republished in Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 294-312.
- "'The Marriage Covenant Is at the Foundation of All Our Rights': The Politics of Slave Marriages in North Carolina after Emancipation." Law and History Review 14 (Spring, 1996): 81-124. republished as "Marriage, Households, and the Politics of Reconstruction in North Carolina," in Glenda Gilmore, Jane Dailey, and Bryant Simon, eds., Race, Gender, and Politics in the New South, 1865-1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 7-27.
- "Sexual Violence, Gender, Reconstruction, and the Extension of Patriarchy in Granville County, North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 68 (July, 1991): 237-260.
Book Chapters
- Laura F. Edwards, "Civil War and Reconstruction" in Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg ed., The Cambridge History of Law in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
- "Comment: Reflections on Law, Culture, and Slavery" in Winthrop Jordan ed., Slavery and the American South (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003), 82-92.
- "The People's Sovereignty and the Law: Defining Gender, Race, and Class Differences in the Antebellum South" in Stephanie Cole ed., Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the United States South and Southwest (Arlington, Texas: University of Texas Press for the University of Texas, Arlington, 2003), 3-34.
- "Women, Gender, and Labor" in William L. Barney ed., The Blackwell Companion to 19th Century America (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Limited, 2001), 223-37.
- "Emancipation and Its Consequences" in John B. Boles ed., The Blackwell Companion to the American South (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Limited, 2001), 269-83.
- "Women and Domestic Violence in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina" in Michael Bellesiles ed., Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 115-36. (republished as "Women and the Law: Domestic Discord in North Carolina After the Civil War," in Local Matters: Race, Crime, and Justice in the American South, edited by Donald Nieman and Christopher Waldrep (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000), 125-54)
- "Captives of Wilmington: The Riot and Historical Memories of Political Conflict, 1865-1898" in Timothy B. Tyson and David S. Cecelski ed., Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 113-41.
- "U.S. Women's History" in Encyclopedia of Social History (New York: Garland, 1994), 775-777.
Other
- "You Can't Go Home Again: Politics, War, and Domestic Life in the Nineteenth-Century South." Reviews in American History 25 (December, 1997): 570-76.
- "Women and Work in Florida: A Photographic Essay." Tampa Bay History 18 (Fall/Winter 1996): 32-48.