"Searching for Their Places" is a collection inspired by the
Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The essays in this
volume are particularly astute in assessing how southern women, in
the course of "searching for their places," have individually or
collectively sought to empower themselves. The essays, written by
outstanding historians in this field, represent some of the
freshest and most exciting scholarship about women in the South.
They convincingly illustrate how the national experience looks
different when southern women become the focus.
The essayists use extensive analyses of primary source materials
to examine a variety of issues that have confronted women in the
South from the days of English colonization through the civil
rights struggles of the post-World War II era. The collection is
well balanced in its periodization, with one essay on the
seventeenth century, four on the antebellum years, one on the Civil
War, three on the immediate postbellum era, and four based in the
twentieth century.
Studying women of different colors, backgrounds, and stations
across the region and across four centuries, "Searching for Their
Places" will appeal to historians, the general reader, and anyone
interested in women's studies.
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