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"Lives full of struggle and triumph" : Southern women, their institutions, and their communities /

''A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history.''--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky UniversitySpanning the sweep of southern women's history from colonial times to the late 20th century, this collection represen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Clayton, Bruce, Salmond, John A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Colección:New perspectives on the history of the South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • '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.