Women Shaping the South - Creating and Confronting Change (Hardcover)

Events in southern history have often been recounted from the top down, relying on political and economic models to explain historical changes. Thus, the key players have usually been men who dominated politics, shaped economic development, and led armies. However, women who confronted change and shaped it through their actions also make history from the bottom up. In this collection of essays, the contributors reexamine major transformative events of southern history from the late eighteenth century through the civil rights era. Shifting the focus to the local level, the authors demonstrate how women participated in creating change, even as they confronted conditions over which they had little power. In addition to exploring southern women's lives, this collection shows how the women shaped southern history. Using new and extensive primary research, each of these authors presents a new perspective on the important roles that women of different races and classes have played in transforming the South at some of its most crucial turning points, including post-Revolution, Civil War, Jim Crow era, World War I, and the civil rights movement. Expanded from papers presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History in Athens, Georgia, these essays reflect the depth and breadth of current vibrant research in southern women's history and contribute exciting and important new scholarship to the field. Just as significant, the volume highlights the trends in southern women's historical scholarship and points toward new directions for future scholars.

General

Imprint:	University of Missouri Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Southern Women
Release date:	2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Angela Boswell • Judith N McArthur
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8262-1617-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-8262-1617-X
Barcode:	9780826216175

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