Hidden histories of women in the New South
By: edited by Virginia Bernhard ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bernhard, Virginia, 1937-; Southern Conference on Women's History (2nd : 1991 : Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Series: Southern women
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History; African American women -- Southern States -- History; Women in politics -- Southern States -- History; Women social reformers -- Southern States -- History
Description: As women's history has embraced the contributions of multiculturalism, crucial intersections between gender and race, ideology and identity, and work and life have converged to enrich the mainstream of American history. The parameters that once defined women's history have broadened from the experiences of just a few white middle-class women to include those of women from all walks of life.

Representing some of the best and most recent scholarly work in the field, the subjects of these essays reflect the diversity of southern women's lives. Women in prisons, in mental institutions, in labor unions; women activists for temperance, suffrage, birth control, and civil rights; women at home and in public life: all add their individual histories to help reshape the terrain of the American past.

Southern women's history continues to make pathbreaking strides, and students of women's history, southern history, ethnic studies, sociology, and psychology will find this volume's contributions invaluable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from the second Southern Conference on Women's History, in Chapel Hill, N.C., June 7-8, 1991.