| Description |
x, 319 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Writing the history of southern women / Anne Firor Scott -- From corn mothers to cotton spinners : continuity in Choctaw women's economic life, A.D. 950-1830 / James Taylor Carson -- A struggle for survival : non-elite white women in lowcountry Georgia, 1790-1830 / Timothy J. Lockley -- Cherokee women and cultural change / Alice Taylor-Colbert -- The politics of pedagogy and Judaism in the early republican South : the case of Rachel and Eliza Mordecai / Jean E. Friedman -- Equality deferred, opportunity pursued : the sisters of Wachovia / Johanna Miller Lewis -- According to his wish and desire : female kin and female slaves in planter wills / Joan E. Cashin -- The northern myth of the rebel girl / Nina Silber -- "Stand by your man" : the ladies memorial association and the reconstruction of southern white manhood / LeeAnn Whites -- Susannah and the elders or Potiphar's wife? : allegations of sexual misconduct at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute / Adele Logan Alexander -- Waiting for the millennium, remembering the past : Appalachian women in time and place / Margaret Ripley Wolfe -- "Most sacrificing" service : the educational leadership of Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune / Audrey Thomas McCluskey -- Black women's culture of resistance and the right to vote / Darlene Clark Hine and Christie Anne Farnham -- Renegotiating liberty : Garveyism, women, and grassroots organizing in Virginia / Barbara Bair -- A new deal for southern women : gender and race in women's work relief / Martha H. Swain -- Searching for southern lesbian history / Pippa Holloway -- Second wave feminism(s) and the South : the difference that differences make / Jane Sherron De Hart. |
| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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Minority women -- Southern States -- History.
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Minority women. |
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African American women -- Southern States -- History.
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African American women. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Farnham, Christie.
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| ISBN |
0814726550 paperback alkaline paper |
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0814726542 alkaline paper |
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