Women of the American South : a multicultural reader / edited by Christie Anne Farnham.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Farnham, Christie
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1997], ©1997.
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Physical Description:x, 319 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Writing the history of southern women / Anne Firor Scott
  • From corn mothers to cotton spinners : continuity in Choctaw women's economic life, A.D. 950-1830 / James Taylor Carson
  • A struggle for survival : non-elite white women in lowcountry Georgia, 1790-1830 / Timothy J. Lockley
  • Cherokee women and cultural change / Alice Taylor-Colbert
  • The politics of pedagogy and Judaism in the early republican South : the case of Rachel and Eliza Mordecai / Jean E. Friedman
  • Equality deferred, opportunity pursued : the sisters of Wachovia / Johanna Miller Lewis
  • According to his wish and desire : female kin and female slaves in planter wills / Joan E. Cashin
  • The northern myth of the rebel girl / Nina Silber
  • "Stand by your man" : the ladies memorial association and the reconstruction of southern white manhood / LeeAnn Whites
  • Susannah and the elders or Potiphar's wife? : allegations of sexual misconduct at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute / Adele Logan Alexander
  • Waiting for the millennium, remembering the past : Appalachian women in time and place / Margaret Ripley Wolfe
  • "Most sacrificing" service : the educational leadership of Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune / Audrey Thomas McCluskey
  • Black women's culture of resistance and the right to vote / Darlene Clark Hine and Christie Anne Farnham
  • Renegotiating liberty : Garveyism, women, and grassroots organizing in Virginia / Barbara Bair
  • A new deal for southern women : gender and race in women's work relief / Martha H. Swain
  • Searching for southern lesbian history / Pippa Holloway
  • Second wave feminism(s) and the South : the difference that differences make / Jane Sherron De Hart.