Women of the American South : a multicultural reader / edited by Christie Anne Farnham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farnham, Christie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Southern States--History.

Women.

African American women.

History.

Minority women.

Southern States.

Minority women--Southern States--History.

African American women--Southern States--History.

Physical Description:

x, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [1997]

Summary:

Never before has a book of southern history so successfully integrated the experiences of white and non-white women. Discrediting the myth of the Southern belle, the book brings to light the lives of Cherokee women, Appalachian "coal daughters", and Jewish women in the South. The essays--all but one published here for the first time--fill crucial gaps in southern history and women's history.

Contents:

Writing the history of southern women / Anne Firor Scott

From corn mothers to cotton spinners : continuity in Choctaw women's economic life, A.D. 950-1830 / James Taylor Carson

A struggle for survival : non-elite white women in lowcountry Georgia, 1790-1830 / Timothy J. Lockley

Cherokee women and cultural change / Alice Taylor-Colbert

The politics of pedagogy and Judaism in the early republican South : the case of Rachel and Eliza Mordecai / Jean E. Friedman

Equality deferred, opportunity pursued : the sisters of Wachovia / Johanna Miller Lewis

According to his wish and desire : female kin and female slaves in planter wills / Joan E. Cashin

The northern myth of the rebel girl / Nina Silber

"Stand by your man" : the ladies memorial association and the reconstruction of southern white manhood / LeeAnn Whites

Susannah and the elders or Potiphar's wife? : allegations of sexual misconduct at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute / Adele Logan Alexander

Waiting for the millennium, remembering the past : Appalachian women in time and place / Margaret Ripley Wolfe

"Most sacrificing" service : the educational leadership of Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune / Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Black women's culture of resistance and the right to vote / Darlene Clark Hine and Christie Anne Farnham

Renegotiating liberty : Garveyism, women, and grassroots organizing in Virginia / Barbara Bair

A new deal for southern women : gender and race in women's work relief / Martha H. Swain

Searching for southern lesbian history / Pippa Holloway

Second wave feminism(s) and the South : the difference that differences make / Jane Sherron De Hart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814726542

0814726550

OCLC:

37513058