Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change

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Angela Boswell, Judith N. McArthur
University of Missouri Press, 2006 - 269 pages
"Expanded from papers presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, this collection demonstrates how women of different races and classes transformed the South during its most crucial turning points, including post-Revolution, Civil War, Jim Crow era, World War I, and the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.
 

Contents

Editors Introduction
1
1 Gentry Women and the Transformation of Daily Life in Jeffersonian and Antebellum Virginia
7
2 Jane C Washington Family and Nation at Mount Vernon 18301855
30
3 I Desire to Give My Black Family Their Freedom
50
4 Seeking a Moral Economy of War
74
5 Redirecting the Tide of White Imperialism
97
6 Unlikely Allies
120
7 Solving the Girl Problem
152
8 To See Past the Differences to the Fundamentals
174
9 Louise Thompson Patterson and the Southern Roots of the Popular Front
204
10 Womens and Girls Activism in 1960s Southwest Georgia
229
About the Editors and Contributors
259
Index
261
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