The Education of the Southern Belle : : Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South / / Christie Anne Farnham.
The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions epitomized by the ideal of the Southe...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. Academic Life
- CHAPTER 1. What's in a Name? Antebellum Female Colleges
- CHAPTER 2. From Embroidery to Greek: Raising Academic Levels
- CHAPTER 3. Educating a Lady: The Formal Curriculum
- PART TWO. The World of the Female School
- CHAPTER 4. The Yankee Dispersion: Faculty Life in Female Schools
- CHAPTER 5. Trying to Look Very Fascinating: The Informal Curriculum
- CHAPTER 6. Sisters: The Development of Sororities
- CHAPTER 7. Lovers: Romantic Friendships
- CHAPTER 8. Queens: May Day Queens as Symbol and Substance
- Epilogue: The Enduring Image of the Southern Belle
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index