Unruly Women

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Unruly Women is written by Victoria E. Bynum and published by UNC Press Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080784361X (ISBN 10) and 9780807843611 (ISBN 13).

Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women. Some appeared in court as abused, sometimes abusive, wives, as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent assaults, or as participants in illicit, interracial relationships. During the Civil War, women frequently were cited for theft, trespassing, or rioting, usually in an effort to gain goods made scarce by war. Some women were charged with harboring evaders or deserters of the Confederacy, an act that reflected their conviction that the Confederacy was destroying them.