Title "Lives full of struggle and triumph" : Southern women, their institutions, and their communities / edited by Bruce L. Clayton and John A. Salmond ; foreword by John David Smith

Published Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) Series New perspectives on the history of the South New perspectives on the history of the South. 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Southern States -- History -- Sources Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions Women -- Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources Segregation -- Southern States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Manners and customs Segregation Women Women -- Social conditions SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- Sources Southern States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125663 Subject Southern States United States -- Confederate States of America Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book Author Clayton, Bruce Salmond, John A ISBN 0813031176 9780813031170

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