Women shaping the south
Subtitle: creating and confronting change
By: edited by Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur.
Contributors: Boswell, Angela, 1965-; McArthur, Judith N.
Series: Southern women
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780826216175
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History -- Congresses.; Southern States -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Expanded from papers presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, this collection demonstrates how women of different races and classes transformed the South during its most crucial turning points, including post-Revolution, Civil War, Jim Crow era, World War I, and the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editors' introduction; title: Gentry women and the transformation of daily life in Jeffersonian and antebellum Virginia / Phillip Hamilton; title: Jane C. Washington, family, and nation at Mount Vernon, 1830-1855 / Jean B. Lee; title: "I desire to give my black family their freedom" : manumissions, inheritance, and visions of family in antebellum Kentucky / Yvonne M. Pitts; title: Seeking a moral economy of war : Confederate women and southern nationalism in Civil War North Carolina / Jacqueline Glass Campbell; title: Redirecting the tide of white imperialism : the impact of Ida B. Wells's transatlantic antilynching campaign on British conceptions of American race relations / Sarah L. Silkey; title: Unlikely allies : southern women, interracial cooperation, and the making of segregation in Virginia, 1910-1920 / Clayton McClure Brooks; title: Solving the girl problem : race, womanhood, and leisure in Atlanta during World War I / Sarah Mercer Judson; title: To see past the differences to the fundamentals : racial coalition within the League of Women Voters of St. Louis, 1920-1946 / Priscilla A. Dowden-White; title: Louise Thompson Patterson and the southern roots of the Popular Front / Claire Nee Nelson; title: Women's and girls' activism in 1960s southwest Georgia : rethinking history and historiography / Alisa Y. Harrison.