In Joy and in Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900.

Preface, Foreword, Introduction, 1 Precursor to the Victorian Age: The Concept of Marriage and Family as Revealed in the Correspondence of the Izard Family of South Carolina, 2 Family and Female Identity in the Antebellum South: Sarah Gayle and Her Family, 3 An Outrage upon Nature: Incest and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South, 4 Dishonor: Flesh, Blood, Race, and Bondage, 5 Our Family, White and Black: Family and Household in the Southern Slaveholders' World View, 6 Strategies of Survival: Free Negro Families and the Problem of Slavery, 7 Distress and Discord in Virginia Slave Families, 1830-1860, 8 Toward a Kinder and Gentler America: The Southern Lady in the Greening of the Politics of the Old South, 9 The Clays of Alabama: The Impact of the Civil War on a Southern Marriage, 10. House and Home in the Victorian South: The Cookbook as Guide, 11. A Family Tradition of Letters: The Female Percys and the Brontean Mode, 12. The Political Economy of Sharecropping Families: Blacks and Poor Whites in the Rural South, 1865-1915, 13. A Woman Made to Suffer and Be Strong: Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907, 14. A Victorian Father: Josiah Gorgas and His Family, Epilogue, Appendix for An Outrage upon Nature Notes Contributors