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Author Farnham, Christie Anne

Title The Education of the Southern Belle : Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South
Published New York : NYU Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE Academic Life; CHAPTER 1 What's in a Name? Antebellum Female Colleges; CHAPTER 2 From Embroidery to Greek: Raising Academic Levels; CHAPTER 3 Educating a Lady: The Formal Curriculum; PART TWO The World of the Female School; CHAPTER 4 The Yankee Dispersion: Faculty Life in Female Schools; CHAPTER 5 Trying to Look Very Fascinating: The Informal Curriculum; CHAPTER 6 Sisters: The Development of Sororities; CHAPTER 7 Lovers: Romantic Friendships; CHAPTER 8 Queens: May Day Queens as Symbol and Substance
Epilogue: The Enduring Image of the Southern BelleNotes; Select Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions epitomized by the ideal of the Southern belle. This groundbreaking work provides us with an intimate picture of the entire social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in the South, analyzing the impact of these colleges upon the cultural construction of femininity among white Southern women, and their legacy for higher e
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Subject Women -- Education (Higher) -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Education, Higher -- Curricula -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Interpersonal relations -- History -- 19th century
Women -- Socialization -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Education, Higher -- Curricula.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects.
Interpersonal relations.
Women -- Education (Higher)
Women -- Socialization.
Southern States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814728604
081472860X
9780814726341
0814726348