ISBN:
0826262880
,
9780826262882
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 296 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Southern women
Parallel Title:
Print version Searching for their places
DDC:
305.40975
Keywords:
Women History
;
Southern States
;
Southern States
;
Women History
;
Women History
;
Vrouwen
;
Frau
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
Women
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Southern States
;
USA ; Südstaaten
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Pocahontas was not the only one : Indian women and their English liaisons in seventeenth-century Virginia / Virginia Bernhard -- "Nocturnal adventures in Mulatto Alley" : sex in Charleston, South Carolina / Cynthia M. Kennedy -- "Mah pappy belong to a neighbor" : the effects of abroad marriages on Missouri slave families / Diane Mutti Burke -- "With humbled and painfully blited feelings" : a southwest Virginia woman in "the great wourld" of Richmond, 1837-1840 /Norma Taylor Mitchell -- Active faith : the participation of Louisiana women in antebellum religious services / Julia Huston Nguyen -- A history of captivity and a history of freedom : race in a Civil War household of single women / Laura Odendahl -- Women's role in the transformation of Winnie Davis into the daughter of the Confederacy / Cita Cook -- Abbie Holmes Christensen and the politics of maternalism and race : Beaufort, South Carolina, 1890-1938 / Monica Maria Tetzlaff -- Promoting tradition, embracing change : the Poppenheim sisters of Charleston / Sidney R. Bland -- A murder in the Kentucky mountains : Pine Mountain settlement school and community relations in the 1920s / Deborah L. Blackwell -- Gender and sectionalism in New Deal politics : Southern white women's campaign for labor reform / Landon R.Y. Storrs -- Exposing anger and discontent : Esther Bubley's portrait of the upper South during World War II / Melissa A. Mceuen -- "With all deliberate speed" : the integration of the League of Women Voters of New Orleans, 1953-1963 / Shannon L. Frystak.
Abstract:
Searching for Their Places is a collection inspired by the Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The esays in this volume are particularly astute in assessing the ways in which southern women have claimed power, or "searched for their places, " and suggests how southern women, individually and collectively, have sought to empower themselves. The essays, written by outstanding historians in this field, represent some of the freshest and most exciting scholarship about women in the South. They convincingly illustrate how the national experience looks different when southern women become the focus. The essayists use extensive analyses of primary source materials to examine a variety of issues that have confronted women in the South from the days of English colonialization through the civil rights struggles of the post-World War II era. The collection is well balanced in its periodization, with four essays on the antebellum years, one on the Civil War, three on the immediate postbellum era, and four based in the twentieth century. Studying women of every color, background, and station across the region and across four centuries, Searching for Their Places will appeal to the general reader and anyone interested in women's studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Pocahontas was not the only one : Indian women and their English liaisons in seventeenth-century Virginia / Virginia Bernhard"Nocturnal adventures in Mulatto Alley" : sex in Charleston, South Carolina / Cynthia M. Kennedy -- "Mah pappy belong to a neighbor" : the effects of abroad marriages on Missouri slave families / Diane Mutti Burke -- "With humbled and painfully blited feelings" : a southwest Virginia woman in "the great wourld" of Richmond, 1837-1840 /Norma Taylor Mitchell -- Active faith : the participation of Louisiana women in antebellum religious services / Julia Huston Nguyen -- A history of captivity and a history of freedom : race in a Civil War household of single women / Laura Odendahl -- Women's role in the transformation of Winnie Davis into the daughter of the Confederacy / Cita Cook -- Abbie Holmes Christensen and the politics of maternalism and race : Beaufort, South Carolina, 1890-1938 / Monica Maria Tetzlaff -- Promoting tradition, embracing change : the Poppenheim sisters of Charleston / Sidney R. Bland -- A murder in the Kentucky mountains : Pine Mountain settlement school and community relations in the 1920s / Deborah L. Blackwell -- Gender and sectionalism in New Deal politics : Southern white women's campaign for labor reform / Landon R.Y. Storrs -- Exposing anger and discontent : Esther Bubley's portrait of the upper South during World War II / Melissa A. Mceuen -- "With all deliberate speed" : the integration of the League of Women Voters of New Orleans, 1953-1963 / Shannon L. Frystak.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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