Beyond the HouseholdMuch has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestaland were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her