Searching for their places : women in the South across four centuries / / edited by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. and Angela Boswell.

• Superior document: Southern women
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Appleton, Thomas H., 1950-; Boswell, Angela, 1965-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Southern women.
• Physical Description: x, 296 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Pocahontas was not the only one : Indian women and their English liaisons in seventeenth-century Virginia/ Virginia Bernhard-- "Nocturnal adventures in Mulatto Alley" : sex in Charleston, South Carolina/ Cynthia M. Kennedy-- "Mah pappy belong to a neighbor" : the effects of abroad marriages on Missouri slave families/ Diane Mutti Burke-- "With humbled and painfully blited feelings" : a southwest Virginia woman in "the great wourld" of Richmond, 1837-1840/ Norma Taylor Mitchell-- Active faith : the participation of Louisiana women in antebellum religious services/ Julia Huston Nguyen-- A history of captivity and a history of freedom : race in a Civil War household of single women/ Laura Odendahl-- Women's role in the transformation of Winnie Davis into the daughter of the Confederacy/ Cita Cook-- Abbie Holmes Christensen and the politics of maternalism and race : Beaufort, South Carolina, 1890-1938/ Monica Maria Tetzlaff-- Promoting tradition, embracing change : the Poppenheim sisters of Charleston/ Sidney R. Bland-- A murder in the Kentucky mountains : Pine Mountain settlement school and community relations in the 1920s/ Deborah L. Blackwell-- Gender and sectionalism in New Deal politics : Southern white women's campaign for labor reform/ Landon R. Y. Storrs-- Exposing anger and discontent : Esther Bubley's portrait of the upper South during World War II / Melissa A. Mceuen -- "With all deliberate speed" : the integration of the League of Women Voters of New Orleans, 1953-1963 / Shannon L. Frystak.