"Lives full of struggle and triumph" : Southern women, their institutions, and their communities /

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Imprint:	Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 323 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	New perspectives on the history of the South New perspectives on the history of the South.
Subject:	Women -- Southern States -- History -- Sources. Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions. Women -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources. Segregation -- Southern States -- History. Manners and customs. Segregation. Women. Women -- Social conditions. Southern States -- History -- Sources. Southern States -- Social life and customs. Southern States. United States -- Confederate States of America. Electronic books. History. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11148883

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Other authors / contributors:	Clayton, Bruce. Salmond, John A.
ISBN:	0813031176 9780813031170
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	''A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history.''--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky UniversitySpanning 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.
Other form:	Print version: "Lives full of struggle and triumph". Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©2003 081302675X

Table of Contents:

'The empire of my heart': the marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd / Paula A. Treckel
The new Andromeda: Sarah Morgan and the post-Civil War domestic ideal / Giselle Roberts
'The worst results in Mississippi may prove the best for us': Blanche Butler Ames and reconstruction / Warren Ellem
'College girls': the female academy and female identity in the old South / Anya Jabour
'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 / Orville Vernon Burton
Ministries in black and white: the Catholic nuns of St. Augustine, 1859-1869 / Barbara E. Mattick
The rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1894-1914 / Karen L. Cox
Keepers of the hearth: women, the Klan, and traditional family values / Glenn Feldman
A warm, personal friend, or worse than Hitler? How Southern women viewed Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945 / Pamela Tyler
Esther Cooper Jackson: a life in the whirlwind / Sarah Hart Brown
From sharecropper to schoolteacher: Thelma McGee's Mississippi girlhood / Kathi Kern
'Bridges burned to a privileged past': Anne Braden and the Southern Freedom Movement / Catherine Fosl
Vivion Brewer of Arkansas: a ladylike assault on the 'Southern way of life' / Elizabeth Jacoway
After the wives went to work: organizing women in the Southern apparel industry / Michelle Haberland.

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