Southern Women: Histories and Identities - Hardcover

This volume presents selected essays from the 1988 Southern Conference on Women's History that attempt to define Southern women's sense of historical identity. The essays examine the historiography of Southern women along racial, gender, and class lines; their participation in and legal rights dating from the Revolutionary era; the issue of mulattoes and Southern society; the mythology of mammies; race and class in the context of suffrage issues; and the black woman's fear of rape and sexual powerlessness. The volume wisely does not purport to be a comprehensive guide to Southern women's history. Rather, it touches on more or less important issues by which Southern women, both white and black, defined themselves. Essayists like Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and Darlene Clark Hine are well-known women's historians as well as rising scholars. Highly recommended for all academic libraries.
- Jenny Presnell, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, Ohio
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