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Women shaping the south : creating and confronting change /

"Expanded from papers presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, this collection demonstrates how women of different races and classes transformed the South during its most crucial turning points, including post-Revolution, Civil War, Jim Crow era, World War I, and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Southern Conference on Women's History Athens, Ga.
Other Authors: Boswell, Angela, 1965-, McArthur, Judith N.
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Series:Southern women.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Gentry women and the transformation of daily life in Jeffersonian and antebellum Virginia / Phillip Hamilton
  • Jane C. Washington, family, and nation at Mount Vernon, 1830-1855 / Jean B. Lee
  • "I desire to give my black family their freedom": manumissions, inheritance, and visions of family in antebellum Kentucky / Yvonne M. Pitts
  • Seeking a moral economy of war: Confederate women and southern nationalism in Civil War North Carolina / Jacqueline Glass Campbell
  • Redirecting the tide of white imperialism: the impact of Ida B. Wells's transatlantic antilynching campaign on British conceptions of American race relations / Sarah L. Silkey
  • Unlikely allies: southern women, interracial cooperation, and the making of segregation in Virginia, 1910-1920 / Clayton McClure Brooks
  • Solving the girl problem: race, womanhood, and leisure in Atlanta during World War I / Sarah Mercer Judson
  • To see past the differences to the fundamentals: racial coalition within the League of Women Voters of St. Louis, 1920-1946 / Priscilla A. Dowden-White
  • Louise Thompson Patterson and the southern roots of the Popular Front / Claire Nee Nelson
  • Women's and girls' activism in 1960s southwest Georgia: rethinking history and historiography / Alisa Y. Harrison.