Marli F. Weiner (d. 2009) was Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. Her books include Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South.

"An original and provocative presentation of plantation women in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . Weiner provides one of the most detailed analyses of the South's ideology of domesticity, and she helps us to understand female agency in the shifting nature of Southern race relations."--Journal of Social History

Marli F. Weiner (d. 2009) was Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. Her books include Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South.

"An original and provocative presentation of plantation women in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . Weiner provides one of the most detailed analyses of the South's ideology of domesticity, and she helps us to understand female agency in the shifting nature of Southern race relations."--Journal of Social History

Marli F. Weiner (d. 2009) was Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. Her books include Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South.

"An original and provocative presentation of plantation women in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . Weiner provides one of the most detailed analyses of the South's ideology of domesticity, and she helps us to understand female agency in the shifting nature of Southern race relations."--Journal of Social History