Women and gender in the new South
Subtitle: 1865-1945
By: Elizabeth Hayes Turner.
Series: American history series
Publisher: Harlan Davidson, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wheeling, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780882952659
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History; African American women -- Southern States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: women and families in the Civil War era; title: War's end; title: Women, gender, and race in reconstructing the South; title: Reconstructing the South; title: African American families after the war; title: Gender reconstruction; title: White families after the war; gender rehabilitation; title: Farming among African Americans; title: Women's invisible household economy; title: White farming families and women's work; title: From family farm to mill and village; title: Gender and race in the coal fields of Alabama; title: Gender, race, and the construction of white supremacy; title: Creating the lost cause; title: Educating the new generation; title: Changes in white attitude; title: The gendered origins of disfranchisement; title: The success of the Populist Party and its aftermath; title: Lynching for Southern womanhood; title: Prelude to reform in the South; title: Religion and new roles for women; title: Relief and benevolent institutions; title: Temperance and prohibition; title: The farmers' alliances and women's education; title: The women's club movement; title: Women and the progressive spirit; title: Southern progressivism; title: Women and municipal housekeeping; title: Progressive reform at the state level; title: Reform of the penal system; title: Educating the children of the South; title: Women and labor reform; title: Health reform and eugenics; title: Gender and legal reform; title: Women and politics in the South; title: The strategic South in the woman suffrage movement; title: First generation of woman suffragists, 1890/1910; title: Second generation of woman suffragists, 1910/1920; title: African American women organize for the vote; title: World War I; title: Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment; title: The new woman in politics; title: Gender, race, and the "modern" decades; title: The thoroughly modern Southern woman; title: Southern music; the gendered art; title: Women writers and Southern literature; title: Re-creating a white man's South; title: Black Southerners and the great migration; title: Interracial beginnings and the anti-lynching campaign; title: Women, gender, the Great Depression, and the New Deal; title: Early depression in the South; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; title: The New Deal in the South; title: Down on the farm; title: Women, textiles, and the NRA; title: Bubbling radicalism; title: Epilogue; title: Bibliographical essay; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.