Work, family, and faith
Subtitle: rural southern women in the twentieth century
By: edited by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless.
Contributors: Walker, Melissa, 1962-; Sharpless, Rebecca.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780826216298
Subjects: Rural women -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Social change -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Rural conditions.
Description: "Collection of essays capturing the transformation of the American South from agrarian to industrial/commercial over the course of the twentieth century from the perspective of women struggling against poverty by relying on tradition and inner strength"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker; title: "Work was my pleasure" : an oral history of Nellie Stancil Langley / Lu Ann Jones; title: "Pretty near every woman done a man's work" : women and field work in the rural South / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker; title: "A responsibility on women that cannot be delegated to father, husband, or son" : farm women and cooperation in the tobacco South / Evan P. Bennett; title: "Seizing the opportunity" : home demonstration curb markets in Virginia / Ann E. McCleary; title: Revitalizing southern homes : rural women, the professionalization of home demonstration work, and the limits of reform, 1917-1945 / Lynne Rieff; title: "You got us all a-pullin' together" : southern Methodist deaconesses in the rural South, 1922-1940 / Lois E. Myers; title: "Shepherdess of the hills" : the Salvation Army mountain ministry of Cecil Brown / Connie Park Rice; title: Goin' north : the African American women of Sloss Quarters / Karen R. Utz; title: "It takes a special kind of woman to work up there" : race, gender, and the impact of the apparel industry on southern Alabama, 1937-2001 / Michelle Haberland.