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North Carolina Women - Their Lives and Times (Paperback)
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North Carolina Women - Their Lives and Times (Paperback)
Series: Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
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North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished,
influential women--women who have expanded their sphere of
influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and
circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele,
the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution;
Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"; and Edith Vanderbilt and
Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's
equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of
pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century
into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights
into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time,
place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand
their considerable influence during periods of political challenge
and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its
positive impact on women's education--for white and black alike--
beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities
that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large
numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and
what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also
examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as
political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows.
The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within
North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern
third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.
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