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Stepping Out of the Shadows : Alabama Women, 1819-1990 /
The history of Alabama has been told, but most often in terms of white men and their politics and economics. Now a more complex story of the state is emerging from the shadows of history in a new book that investigates the place of women from the perspective of race, class, and gender. The writers r...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The history of Alabama has been told, but most often in terms of white men and their politics and economics. Now a more complex story of the state is emerging from the shadows of history in a new book that investigates the place of women from the perspective of race, class, and gender. The writers reexamine the roles of both black and white women as missionaries during Reconstruction, as reformers and suffrage leaders in the Progressive era, and as members of the state legislature in the 20th century. |
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| Item Description: | Collection of essays derived from a conference held in Birmingham, Mar. 1990, by the Alabama Women's History Forum. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 pages): illustrations ; |
| ISBN: | 9780817394325 |