Women of the American South : : A Multicultural Reader / / ed. by Christie Anne Farnham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bair, Barbara,; Carson, James Taylor,; Cashin, Joan E.,; De Hart, Jane Sherron,; Farnham, Christie Anne,; Friedman, Jean E.,; Hine, Darlene Clark,; Holloway, Pippa,; Lewis, Johanna Miller,; Lockley, Timothy J.,; McCluskey, Audrey Thomas,; Scott, Anne Firor,; Silber, Nina,; Swain, Martha H.,; Taylor-Colbert, Alice,; Whites, LeeAnn,; Wolfe, Margaret Ripley,; lexan, Adele Logan,
• HerausgeberIn: Farnham, Christie Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill). And yet the women of America's south iave always defied pat generalization, no more readily forced into facle categories than women in the country's other regions.Never before has a book of southern history so successfully integrated the experiences of white and non-white women. Among the myriad subjects addressed in the book are black women's suffrage, the economic realities of Choctaw women, female kin and female slaves in planters's wills, the northern myth of the rebel girl, second wave feminism in the South, and southern lesbians. Bringing to light the lives of Cherokee women, Appalachian "coal daughters," and Jewish women in the South, the essays all but one published in this book for the first time, ensure that monolithic representations of southern womanhood are a thing of the past.Filling a crucial gap in southern history and women's history, Women of the American South is a valuable reference and pedagogical aid for a wide range of scholars and students.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. Writing the History of Southern Women -- Chapter Two. From Corn Mothers to Cotton Spinners Continuity in Choctaw Women's Economic Life, A.D.950-1830 -- Chapter Three. A Struggle for Survival Non-Elite White Women in Lowcountry Georgia, 1790-183 -- Chapter Four. Cherokee Women and Cultural Change -- Chapter Five. The Politics of Pedagogy and Judaism in the Early Republican South: The Case of Rachel and Eliza Mordecai -- Chapter Six. Equality Deferred, Opportunity Pursued The Sisters of Wachovia -- Chapter Seven. According to His Wish and Desire Female Kin and Female Slaves in Planter Wills -- Chapter Eight. The Northern Myth of the Rebel Girl -- Chapter Nine "Stand by Your Man" The Ladies Memorial Association and the Reconstruction of Southern White Manhood -- Chapter Ten. Susannah and the Elders or Potiphar' s Wife? Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute -- Chapter Eleven. Waiting for the Millennium, Remembering the Past: Appalachian Women in Time and Place -- Chapter Twelve "Most Sacrificing" Service: The Educational Leadership of Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune -- Chapter Thirteen. Black Women's Culture of Resistance and the Right to Vote -- Chapter Fourteen. Renegotiating Liberty Garveyism, Women, and Grassroots Organizing in Virginia -- Chapter Fifteen. A New Deal for Southern Women Gender and Race in Women's Work Relief -- Chapter Sixteen. Searching for Southern Lesbian History -- Chapter Seventeen. Second Wave Feminism(s) and the South: The Difference That Differences Make -- Contributors -- Index