Work, family, and faith : rural southern women in the twentieth century / edited with an introduction by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Melissa, 1962-

Sharpless, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural women--Southern States--History--20th century.

Rural women.

Social change--Southern States.

Social change.

Southern States--Rural conditions.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

xi, 294 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker

"Work was my pleasure" : an oral history of Nellie Stancil Langley / Lu Ann Jones

"Pretty near every woman done a man's work" : women and field work in the rural South / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker

"A responsibility on women that cannot be delegated to father, husband, or son" : farm women and cooperation in the tobacco South / Evan P. Bennett

"Seizing the opportunity" : home demonstration curb markets in Virginia / Ann E. McCleary

Revitalizing southern homes : rural women, the professionalization of home demonstration work, and the limits of reform, 1917-1945 / Lynne Rieff

"You got us all a-pullin' together" : southern Methodist deaconesses in the rural South, 1922-1940 / Lois E. Myers

"Shepherdess of the hills" : the Salvation Army mountain ministry of Cecil Brown / Connie Park Rice

Goin' north : the African American women of Sloss Quarters / Karen R. Utz

"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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6508-1

OCLC:

647502786