Description |
xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Summary |
"Collection of essays capturing the transformation of the American South from agrarian to industrial/commercial over the course of the twentieth century from the perspective of women struggling against poverty by relying on tradition and inner strength"--Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker -- "Work was my pleasure" : an oral history of Nellie Stancil Langley / Lu Ann Jones -- "Pretty near every woman done a man's work" : women and field work in the rural South / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker -- "A responsibility on women that cannot be delegated to father, husband, or son" : farm women and cooperation in the tobacco South / Evan P. Bennett -- "Seizing the opportunity" : home demonstration curb markets in Virginia / Ann E. McCleary -- Revitalizing southern homes : rural women, the professionalization of home demonstration work, and the limits of reform, 1917-1945 / Lynne Rieff -- "You got us all a-pullin' together" : southern Methodist deaconesses in the rural South, 1922-1940 / Lois E. Myers -- "Shepherdess of the hills" : the Salvation Army mountain ministry of Cecil Brown / Connie Park Rice -- Goin' north : the African American women of Sloss Quarters / Karen R. Utz -- "It takes a special kind of woman to work up there" : race, gender, and the impact of the apparel industry on southern Alabama, 1937-2001 / Michelle Haberland. |
Subject |
Rural women -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Rural women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Social change -- Southern States.
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Social change. |
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Southern States -- Rural conditions.
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Rural conditions. |
Added Author |
Walker, Melissa, 1962-
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Sharpless, Rebecca.
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ISBN |
0826216293 alkaline paper |
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9780826216298 alkaline paper |
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