Taking off the white gloves
Subtitle: Southern women and women historians
By: edited by Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton.
Contributors: Gillespie, Michele.; Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
Series: Southern women
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History.; Women historians -- Southern States.
Description: The ten timely and provocative essays in Taking Off the White Gloves represent the collective wisdom of some of the finest scholars on women's history in the American South. On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the Southern Association for Women Historians, this volume brings together some of the outstanding lectures delivered by distinguished members of the association over the past fifteen years.

Spanning four centuries of women's experiences in the South, the topics featured in Taking Off the White Gloves range from Native American sexuality and European conquest to woman suffrage in the South, from black women's protest history to the status of women in the historical profession at the end of the twentieth century.

Taking Off the White Gloves invites a new understanding of the complexities that surround the history of southern women across race, class, place, and time. A model of innovative and imaginative scholarly historical writing, this book provides fertile ground for young scholars and is sure to inspire new research. This thought-provoking volume has much to offer scholars and students, as well as the general reader.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.