"Lives full of struggle and triumph" : Southern women, their institutions, and their communities / edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond ; foreword by John David Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clayton, Bruce L., editor.

Salmond, John A., editor.

Smith, John David, 1949- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Southern States--History--Sources.

Women.

Women--Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States--History--Sources.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

''A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history.''--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky University Spanning the sweep of southern women's history from colonial times to the late 20th century, this collection represents the best scholarship on the lives and experiences of black and white southern women.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword vii; Preface xi; Introduction 1; Part I. The Private World; 1. "The Empire of My Heart": The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd 11; 2. The New Andromeda: Sarah Morgan and the Post-Civil War Domestic Ideal 37; 3. "The Worst Results in Mississippi May Prove the Best for Us": Blanche Butler Ames and Reconstruction 57; 4. "College Girls": The Female Academy and Female Identity in the Old South 74; Part II. The Civil War Era

5. "'Tis True that Our Southern Ladies Have Done and Are Still Acting a Conspicuous Part in This War": Women on the Confederate Home Front in Edgefield County, South Carolina 956. Ministries in Black and White: The Catholic Nuns of St. Augustine, 1859-1869 109; 7. The Rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1894-1914 126; Part III. The Segregation Era; 8. Keepers of the Hearth: Women, the Klan, and Traditional Family Values 149; 9. A Warm, Personal Friend, or Worse Than Hitler? How Southern Women Viewed Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945 181; Part IV. The Era of Social Change

10. Esther Cooper Jackson: A Life in the Whirlwind 20311. From Sharecropper to Schoolteacher: Thelma McGee's Mississippi Girlhood 225; 12. "Bridges Burned to a Privileged Past": Anne Braden and the Southern Freedom Movement 247; 13. Vivion Brewer of Arkansas: A Ladylike Assault on the "Southern Way of Life" 264; 14. After the Wives Went to Work: Organizing Women in the Southern Apparel Industry 283; Notes on the Contributors 303; Index 309

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-3117-6

OCLC:

476046231