Making modern girls: the ideals of the Southern public colleges for women -- Effective literacy: writing instruction and student writing -- Evolution of expression: speech arts and public speaking -- Useful careers: professional training for women of the new south -- The absent presence of race
Summary
From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South. Founded primarily as vocational colleges to educate women of modest economic means for life in the emerging "new" South, these schools soon transformed themselves into comprehensive liberal arts-industrial institutions, proving so popular that they became among the largest women's colleges in the nation. In this illuminating volume, David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs examine rhetorical education at all eight of these colleges, providing a better understanding of not
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