Searching for their places
Subtitle: women in the South across four centuries
By: edited by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. and Angela Boswell
Contributors: Appleton, Thomas H., 1950-; Boswell, Angela, 1965-
Series: Southern women
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Pocahontas was not the only one : Indian women and their English liaisons in seventeenth-century Virginia / Virginia Bernhard; title: "Nocturnal adventures in Mulatto Alley" : sex in Charleston, South Carolina / Cynthia M. Kennedy; title: "Mah pappy belong to a neighbor" : the effects of abroad marriages on Missouri slave families / Diane Mutti Burke; title: "With humbled and painfully blited feelings" : a southwest Virginia woman in "the great wourld" of Richmond, 1837-1840 /Norma Taylor Mitchell; title: Active faith : the participation of Louisiana women in antebellum religious services / Julia Huston Nguyen; title: A history of captivity and a history of freedom : race in a Civil War household of single women / Laura Odendahl; title: Women's role in the transformation of Winnie Davis into the daughter of the Confederacy / Cita Cook; title: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the politics of maternalism and race : Beaufort, South Carolina, 1890-1938 / Monica Maria Tetzlaff; title: Promoting tradition, embracing change : the Poppenheim sisters of Charleston / Sidney R. Bland; title: A murder in the Kentucky mountains : Pine Mountain settlement school and community relations in the 1920s / Deborah L. Blackwell; title: Gender and sectionalism in New Deal politics : Southern white women's campaign for labor reform / Landon R. Y. Storrs; title: Exposing anger and discontent : Esther Bubley's portrait of the upper South during World War II / Melissa A. Mceuen; title: "With all deliberate speed" : the integration of the League of Women Voters of New Orleans, 1953-1963 / Shannon L. Frystak