| Description |
viii, 253 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Southern women |
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Southern women.
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| Note |
Papers from the second Southern Conference on Women's History, in Chapel Hill, N.C., June 7-8, 1991. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The "human world" of Black women in Alabama prisons, 1870-1900 / Mary Ellen Curtin -- "A far greater menace" : feebleminded females in the South, 1900-1940 / Steven Noll -- "Better babies" : birth control in Arkansas during the 1930s / Marianne Leung -- They called it "motherhood" : Dallas women and public life, 1895-1918 / Elizabeth York Enstam -- "Ideals of government, of home, and of women" : the ideology of southern white antisuffragism / Elna Green -- "Both in the field, each with a plow" : race and gender in USDA policy, 1907-1929 / Kathleen C. Hilton -- "Go ahead and do all you can" : southern progressives and Alabama home demonstration clubs, 1914-1940 / Lynne A. Rieff -- "A melting time" : Black women, white women, and the WCTU in North Carolina, 1880-1900 / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore -- "We'll take our stand" : race, class, and gender in the Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969 / Christina Greene -- "More than a lady" : Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black women's leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griss Fleming. |
| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History.
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African American women -- Southern States -- History.
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Women -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History.
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Women social reformers -- Southern States -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Women History |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Bernhard, Virginia, 1937-
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Southern Conference on Women's History (2nd : 1991 : Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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| ISBN |
0826209580 (acid-free paper) |
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