Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE FOUNDATIONS; 1 Reading, Literary Magazines, and the Debate overGender Equality; 2 Education, Gender, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South; PART TWO WOMEN JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS IN THE OLD SOUTH; 3 Periodicals and Literary Culture; 4 Female Authors and Magazine Writing; 5 Antebellum Women Editors and Journalists; PART THREE WOMEN JOURNALISTS AND WRITERS IN THE NEW SOUTH; 6 New South Periodicals and a New Literary Culture; 7 Writing a New South for Women; 8 Postwar Women and Professional Journalism.
Epilogue Women's Press Associations and Professional JournalismBibliography; Index.
Summary
Examines women writers in the nineteenth-century South, offering new insights into women and gender roles.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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