| Description |
x, 224 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Southern women
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Southern women.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
"Common disturbers of the peace" : the politics of white women's sexual misconduct in colonial North Carolina / Kirsten Fischer -- Between mistress and slave : Elizabeth Wirt's white housekeepers, 1808-1825 / Anya Jabour -- Enthusiasm, possession, and madness : gender and the opposition to methodism in the South, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Making the most of life's opportunities : a slave woman and her family in Abingdon, Virginia / Norma Taylor Mitchell -- Her will against theirs : Eda Hickam and the ambiguity of freedom in postbellum Missouri / Kimberly Schreck -- Half my heart in Dixie : Southern identity and the Civil War in the writings of Mary Virginia Terhune / Karen Manners Smith -- Making the connection : public health policy and Black women's volunteer work / Susan L. Smith -- Sarah Patton Boyle's desegregated heart / Joanna Bowen Gillespie - Alice Norwood Spearman Wright : civil rights apostle to South Carolinians / Marcia G. Synnott. |
| 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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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 |
Coryell, Janet L., 1955-
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| ISBN |
0826211739 paperback alkaline paper |
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0826211720 alkaline paper |
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