Searching for their places

Searching for their places women in the South across four centuries / [electronic resource] : edited by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. and Angela Boswell. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003. - x, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Southern women . - Southern women. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


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