Negotiating boundaries of southern womanhood : dealing with the powers that be

Negotiating boundaries of southern womanhood : dealing with the powers that be / edited by Janet L. Coryell [and others].

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Coryell, Janet L., 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, ©2000.
Series:Southern women.
Subjects:
Women > Southern States > History.
African American women > Southern States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
African American women
Women
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Schwarze Frau
Frau
Southern States
USA > Südstaaten
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • "The extent of the law": free women of color in antebellum Memphis, Tennessee / Beverly Greene Bond
  • "Our convent": the Oblate Sisters of Providence and Baltimore's antebellum Black community / Diane Batts Morrow
  • "Her just dues": Civil War pensions of African American women in Virginia / Michelle A. Krowl
  • Virginia women as public citizens: Emancipation Day celebrations and lost cause commemorations, 1863-1890 / Antoinette G. van Zelm
  • Married women's property rights and the challenge to the patriarchal order: Colorado County, Texas / Angela Boswell
  • Indispensable spinsters: maiden aunts in the elite families of Savannah and Charleston / Christine Jacobson Carter
  • "The strongest ties that bind poor mortals together": slaveholding widows and family in the old southeast / Kirsten E. Wood
  • The elite African American women of Orangeburg, South Carolina: class, work, and disunity / Kibibi Voloria Mack-Shelton
  • Lost cause mythology in new South reform: gender, class, race, and the politics of patriotic citizenship in Georgia, 1890-1925 / Rebecca Montgomery
  • Cartridge makers and Myrmidon Viragos: White working-class women in Confederate Richmond / E. Susan Barber
  • "Their desire to visit the Southerners": Mary Greenhow Lee's visiting "Connexion" / Sheila Rae Phipps.

Similar Items