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Educating the New Southern Woman - Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women's Colleges, 1884-1945 (Paperback)
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Educating the New Southern Woman - Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women's Colleges, 1884-1945 (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series
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From the end of Reconstruction through World War II, a network of
public colleges for white women flourished throughout the South.
Founded primarily as vocational colleges to educate women of modest
economic means for life in the emerging "new" South, these schools
soon transformed themselves into comprehensive liberal
arts-industrial institutions, proving so popular that they became
among the largest women's colleges in the nation. In this
illuminating volume, David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs examine
rhetorical education at all eight of these colleges, providing a
better understanding of not only how women learned to read, write,
and speak in American colleges but also how they used their
education in their lives beyond college.
With a collective enrollment and impact rivaling that of the Seven
Sisters, the schools examined in this study--Mississippi State
College for Women (1884), Georgia State College for Women (1889),
North Carolina College for Women (1891), Winthrop College in South
Carolina (1891), Alabama College for Women (1896), Texas State
College for Women (1901), Florida State College for Women (1905),
and Oklahoma College for Women (1908)--served as important centers
of women's education in their states, together educating over a
hundred thousand students before World War II and contributing to
an emerging professional class of women in the South. After tracing
the establishment and evolution of these institutions, Gold and
Hobbs explore education in speech arts and public speaking at the
colleges and discuss writing instruction, setting faculty and
departmental goals and methods against larger institutional,
professional, and cultural contexts. In addition to covering the
various ways the public women's colleges prepared women to succeed
in available occupations, the authors also consider how women's
education in rhetoric and writing affected their career choices,
the role of race at these schools, and the legacy of public women's
colleges in relation to the history of women's education and
contemporary challenges in the teaching of rhetoric and
writing.
The experiences of students and educators at these institutions
speak to important conversations among scholars in rhetoric,
education, women's studies, and history. By examining these
previously unexplored but important institutional sites, "Educating
the New Southern Woman "provides a richer and more complex history
of women's rhetorical education and experiences.
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