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Writing women's history : a tribute to Anne Firor Scott / edited by Elizabeth Anne Payne.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium (32nd : 2007 : University of Mississippi)
- Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium.
- Series:
- Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series.
- Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--History--Congresses.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book. Using women's diaries, letters, and other personal documents, Scott brought to life southern women as wives and mothers, as members of their communities and churches, and as sometimes sassy but rarely passive agents. She brilliantly demonstrated that the familiar dichotomies of the personal versus the public, the private versus the civic, which had dominated traditional scholarship about men, could not be made to fit women's lives. In
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Student's Perspective; Introduction; Equally Their Due: Women's Education and Public Life in Postrevolutionary and Antebellum America; Down from the Pedestal: The Influence of Anne Scott's Southern Ladies; "How are the daughters of Eve punished?": Rape during the Civil War; "A Quilt unlike Any Other": Rediscovering the Work of Harriet Powers; Taking Care of Bodies, Babies, and Business: Black Women Health Professionals in South Carolina, 1895-1954; From Jim Crow to Jane Crow, or How Anne Scott and Pauli Murray Found Each Other
- The Million Mom March: The Perils of Color-Blind MaternalismWriting Women's History: A Response; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- "Essays in this volume were originally presented at the Thirty-second Annual Porter L. Fortune Jr. History Symposium at the University of Mississippi."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-24572-8
- 9786613245724
- 1-61703-174-7
- OCLC:
- 754110201
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