Oral history interview with Gov. Rosamonde R. Boyd, October 29, 1973
Subtitle: interview G-011, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Myers, Constance Ashton, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Equal rights amendments; Women; Suffrage; Women's rights; Social conditions; Working class women; Sex role; Status of Women Committee; American Association of University Women; International Federation of University Women
Other titles: Interview G-011, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Gov. Rosamonde R. Boyd, October 29, 1973; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Rosamonde R. Boyd shares some observations on women's activism in the early 20th century in this interview. She describes the evolution of young women's attitudes, from an assumption that they would teach and raise children after college in the 1910s and 1920s, to a conviction that they would enter the workforce in the 1930s. Boyd is torn between her belief in women's political and social equality and her distaste for blatant violations of traditional gender norms, such as when women wear pants. This interview reveals some of the ways in which even those women who were actively pushing for equal rights wrestled with their own assumptions about gender.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on September 27, 2007).

Interview participants: Rosamonde R. Boyd, interviewee; Constance Myers, interviewer.

Duration: 01:29:38.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-011, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Frances Tamburro. Original transcript: 28 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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