Description |
xii, 323 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
New perspectives on the history of the South
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New perspectives on the history of the South.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
'The empire of my heart': the marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd / Paula A. Treckel -- The new Andromeda: Sarah Morgan and the post-Civil War domestic ideal / Giselle Roberts -- 'The worst results in Mississippi may prove the best for us': Blanche Butler Ames and reconstruction / Warren Ellem -- 'College girls': the female academy and female identity in the old South / Anya Jabour -- 'Tis true that our Southern ladies have done and are still acting a conspicuous part in this war': women on the Confederate home front in Edgefield County, South Carolina / Orville Vernon Burton -- Ministries in black and white: the Catholic nuns of St. Augustine, 1859-1869 / Barbara E. Mattick -- The rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1894-1914 / Karen L. Cox -- Keepers of the hearth: women, the Klan, and traditional family values / Glenn Feldman -- A warm, personal friend, or worse than Hitler? How Southern women viewed Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945 / Pamela Tyler -- Esther Cooper Jackson: a life in the whirlwind / Sarah Hart Brown -- From sharecropper to schoolteacher: Thelma McGee's Mississippi girlhood / Kathi Kern -- 'Bridges burned to a privileged past': Anne Braden and the Southern Freedom Movement / Catherine Fosl -- Vivion Brewer of Arkansas: a ladylike assault on the 'Southern way of life' / Elizabeth Jacoway -- After the wives went to work: organizing women in the Southern apparel industry / Michelle Haberland. |
Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History -- Sources.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
Genre/Form |
Sources.
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Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources.
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Segregation -- Southern States -- History.
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Segregation. |
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Southern States -- History -- Sources.
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Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
Added Author |
Clayton, Bruce.
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Salmond, John A.
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ISBN |
081302675X cloth alkaline paper |
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