TY - BOOK AU - Farmer-Kaiser,Mary ED - Project Muse. TI - Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation T2 - Reconstructing America SN - 9780823249015 AV - E185.2 .F277 2010 U1 - 975/.041 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - United States KW - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Social aspects KW - African American women KW - Southern States KW - Social conditions KW - 19th century KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index; Introduction: "a long time in want of a bureau" -- That the freed-women ... may rise to the dignity and glory of true womanhood : the men, purpose, and gendered freedom of the Freedmen's Bureau -- A weight of circumstances like millstones about their necks to drag and keep them down : freedwomen, federal relief, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- The women are the controlling spirits : freedwomen, free labor, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- To put forth almost superhuman efforts to regain their children : freedwomen, parental rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Strict justice for every man, woman, and child : gender, justice, and the Freedman's Bureau; Libro Electrónico UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/14540/ UR - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php ER -