Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. 324. $55.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.
本书13篇论文探讨美国内战前南方女性在有偿或无偿劳动中的参与，揭示她们因社会观念而被忽视的工作，涵盖从制篮女工到铁厂女工、从奴隶市场参与者到修女等广泛群体。
Each of the 13 essays in this volume considers an aspect of female participation in the paid or unpaid labor force of the antebellum American south. The work of ordinary women is the theme that unites the essays, work the editors in their introduction note was often unacknowledged due to prevailing and evolving attitudes about women's proper work and the role of the male head of household as the family breadwinner. The essays vary widely in their scope, but share a search for ingenious sources of information, a search necessitated by the invisibility of women in official and more conventional sources. The topics range from Native American female makers and sellers of baskets to antebellum female iron manufacturing workers, from coastal Savannah slave women participants in produce markets to western Virginia businesswomen, from Richmond prostitutes to New Orleans nuns.