This book describes southern womanhood and liberal northern
education.From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South
era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of
the Seven Sister colleges: Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke,
Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, and Barnard. Joan Marie Johnson looks at how
such educations - in the North, at some of the country's best
schools - influenced southern women to challenge their traditional
gender roles and become active in woman suffrage and other social
reforms of the Progressive Era South.Attending one of the Seven
Sister colleges, Johnson argues, could transform a southern woman
indoctrinated in notions of domesticity and dependence into someone
with newfound confidence and leadership skills. Many southern
students at northern schools imported the values they imbibed at
college, returning home to found schools of their own, women's
clubs, and woman suffrage associations. At the same time, during
college and after graduation, southern women maintained a
complicated relationship to home, nurturing their regional identity
and remaining loyal to the Confederacy.Johnson explores why
students sought a classical, liberal arts education, how they
prepared for entrance examinations, and how they felt as
southerners on northern campuses. She draws on personal writings,
information gleaned from college publications and records, and data
on the women's decisions about marriage, work, children, and other
life-altering concerns.In their time, the women studied in this
book would eventually make up a disproportionately high percentage
of the elite southern female leadership. This collective biography
highlights their important role in forging new roles for women,
especially in social reform, education, and suffrage.
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