Women of the American South
Subtitle: a multicultural reader
By: edited by Christie Anne Farnham.
Contributors: Farnham, Christie.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History; Minority women -- Southern States -- History; African American women -- Southern States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing the history of southern women / Anne Firor Scott; title: From corn mothers to cotton spinners : continuity in Choctaw women's economic life, A.D. 950-1830 / James Taylor Carson; title: A struggle for survival : non-elite white women in lowcountry Georgia, 1790-1830 / Timothy J. Lockley; title: Cherokee women and cultural change / Alice Taylor-Colbert; title: The politics of pedagogy and Judaism in the early republican South : the case of Rachel and Eliza Mordecai / Jean E. Friedman; title: Equality deferred, opportunity pursued : the sisters of Wachovia / Johanna Miller Lewis; title: According to his wish and desire : female kin and female slaves in planter wills / Joan E. Cashin; title: The northern myth of the rebel girl / Nina Silber; title: "Stand by your man" : the ladies memorial association and the reconstruction of southern white manhood / LeeAnn Whites; title: Susannah and the elders or Potiphar's wife? : allegations of sexual misconduct at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute / Adele Logan Alexander; title: Waiting for the millennium, remembering the past : Appalachian women in time and place / Margaret Ripley Wolfe; title: "Most sacrificing" service : the educational leadership of Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune / Audrey Thomas McCluskey; title: Black women's culture of resistance and the right to vote / Darlene Clark Hine and Christie Anne Farnham; title: Renegotiating liberty : Garveyism, women, and grassroots organizing in Virginia / Barbara Bair; title: A new deal for southern women : gender and race in women's work relief / Martha H. Swain; title: Searching for southern lesbian history / Pippa Holloway; title: Second wave feminism(s) and the South : the difference that  differences make / Jane Sherron De Hart.