Anne Firor Scott's "The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to
Politics, 1830-1930" stirred a keen interest among historians in
both the approach and message of her book. Using women's diaries,
letters, and other personal documents, Scott brought to life
southern women as wives and mothers, as members of their
communities and churches, and as sometimes sassy but rarely passive
agents. She brilliantly demonstrated that the familiar dichotomies
of the personal versus the public, the private versus the civic,
which had dominated traditional scholarship about men, could not be
made to fit women's lives. In doing so, she helped to open up vast
terrains of women's experiences for historical scholarship.
This volume, based on papers presented at the University of
Mississippi's annual Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in
Southern History, brings together essays by scholars at the
forefront of contemporary scholarship on American women's history.
Each regards "The Southern Lady" as having shaped her historical
perspective and inspired her choice of topics in important ways.
These essays together demonstrate that the power of imagination and
scholarly courage manifested in Scott's and other early American
women historians' work has blossomed into a gracious
plentitude.
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