Alarmed at the growing poverty, illiteracy, class strife, and
vulnerability of women after the upheavals of Reconstruction,
female activists in Georgia advocated a fair and just system of
education as a way of providing economic opportunity for women and
the rural and urban poor. Their focus on educational reform
transfigured private and public social relations in the New South,
as Rebecca S. Montgomery details in this expansive study. The
Politics of Education in the New South provides the most complete
picture of women's role in expanding the democratic promise of
education in the South and reveals how concern about their own
status motivated these women to push for reform on behalf of
others.
Montgomery argues that women's prolonged campaign for
educational improvements reflected their concern for distributing
public resources more equitably. Middle-class white women in
Georgia recognized the crippling effects of discrimination and
state inaction, which they came to understand in terms of both
gender and class. They subsequently pushed for admission of women
to Georgia's state colleges and universities and for rural school
improvement, home extension services, public kindergartens, child
labor reforms, and the establishment of female-run boarding schools
in the mountains of North Georgia. In the process, a distinct
female political culture developed that directly opposed the
individualism, corruption, and short-sightedness that plagued
formal politics in the New South.
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