| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker -- "Work was my pleasure" : an oral history of Nellie Stancil Langley / Lu Ann Jones -- "Pretty near every woman done a man's work" : women and field work in the rural South / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker -- "A responsibility on women that cannot be delegated to father, husband, or son" : farm women and cooperation in the tobacco South / Evan P. Bennett -- "Seizing the opportunity" : home demonstration curb markets in Virginia / Ann E. McCleary -- Revitalizing southern homes : rural women, the professionalization of home demonstration work, and the limits of reform, 1917-1945 / Lynne Rieff -- "You got us all a-pullin' together" : southern Methodist deaconesses in the rural South, 1922-1940 / Lois E. Myers -- "Shepherdess of the hills" : the Salvation Army mountain ministry of Cecil Brown / Connie Park Rice -- Goin' north : the African American women of Sloss Quarters / Karen R. Utz -- "It takes a special kind of woman to work up there" : race, gender, and the impact of the apparel industry on southern Alabama, 1937-2001 / Michelle Haberland |
| Summary |
"Collection of essays capturing the transformation of the American South from agrarian to industrial/commercial over the course of the twentieth century from the perspective of women struggling against poverty by relying on tradition and inner strength"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rural women -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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Social change -- Southern States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Rural conditions
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Rural women
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Social change
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Rural conditions
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| Subject |
Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker, Melissa, 1962-
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Sharpless, Rebecca
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| LC no. |
2005028714 |
| ISBN |
0826265081 |
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9780826265081 |
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9780826216298 |
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0826216293 |
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