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Country women cope with hard times : a collection of oral histories / edited by Melissa Walker.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Walker, Melissa, 1962-
Series:
Women's diaries and letters of the South
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Depressions--1929--South Carolina.
Depressions.
Depressions--1929--Tennessee.
Oral history.
Rural women--South Carolina--Correspondence.
Rural women.
Rural women--South Carolina--Diaries.
Rural women--Tennessee--Correspondence.
Rural women--Tennessee--Diaries.
South Carolina--Rural conditions.
South Carolina.
Tennessee--Rural conditions.
Tennessee.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
While the women detail the difficulties of their existence--the drought years, early freezes, low crop prices, and tenant farming--they recall the good times and the neighborly assistance of well-developed mutual aid networks, of which women were the primary participants.
Contents:
Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Farm Women and Their Stories
ONE: Elizabeth Fox McMahan
TWO: Hettie Lawson
THREE: Wilma Cope Williamson
FOUR: LaVerne Farmer
FIVE: French Carpenter Clark
SIX: Korola Neville Lee
SEVEN: Mary Evelyn Russell Lane
EIGHT: Peggy Delozier Jones
NINE: Ethel Davis
TEN: Mabel Love
ELEVEN: Kate Simmons
TWELVE: Evelyn Petree Lewellyn
THIRTEEN: Martha Alice West
FOURTEEN: Ruth Hatchette McBrayer
FIFTEEN: Mary Webb Quinn
SIXTEEN: Dorothy Skinner and Virginia Skinner Harris
SEVENTEEN: Afterword: Reflections on Interpreting Oral History
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9786613910639
9781283598187
1283598183
9781611172157
1611172152

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