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Educating the new Southern woman : speech, writing, and race at the public women's colleges, 1884-1945 /
From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily as vocational colleges to educate women of modest economic means for life in the emerging "new" South, these schools soon transformed themsel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily as vocational colleges to educate women of modest economic means for life in the emerging "new" South, these schools soon transformed themselves into comprehensive liberal arts-industrial institutions, proving so popular that they became among the largest women's colleges in the nation. In this illuminating volume, David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs examine rhetorical education at all eight of these colleges, providing a better understanding of not |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0809332868 9780809332861 1306224225 9781306224222 |