Womenfolks : Growing Up Down South / Shirley Abbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbott, Shirley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, AR : University of Arkansas Press, 2017.

Summary:

A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history. Shirley Abbott gives us the gritty, independent women of the backwoods, the South's true heroines, whose hardscrabble world is one of red dirt and hard work-a far cry from the hoopskirts and magnolias of southern lore. As honest, vibrant, and remarkable as the women whose stories illuminate these pages, Womenfolks draws a vivid portrait of a rural culture beset by poverty and sustained by deeply rooted traditions. In her new preface to this edition, Abbott assesses what has changed-and what may never change-about the burdens of southern history and expresses her hope that the better angels of our nature may prevail in our still-new century.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

One. Daughters of Time

Two. Good Country People

Three. Drowned Women

Four. The Servant Problem

Five. The Importance of Dissimulation

Six. That Old-time Religion

Seven. Generations

Eight. Why Southern Women Leave Home.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610756051

1610756053

OCLC:

962049237