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South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 2 (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)
Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, Joan Marie Johnson
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Description for South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 2 (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)
Hardcover. A collection of essays that offers insights into various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminates the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. Editor(s): Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA); Littlefield, Valinda W.; Johnson, Joan Marie. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 colour & 20 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules - including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women - were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others. This second of three volumes begins with a profile of Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, who founded the Penn School on St. Helena Island for former slaves. Subsequent essays ... Read more
The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules - including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women - were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others. This second of three volumes begins with a profile of Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, who founded the Penn School on St. Helena Island for former slaves. Subsequent essays ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329376
SKU
V9780820329376
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About Marjorie Julian Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, Joan Marie Johnson
Marjorie Julian Spruill is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Valinda W. Littlefield is an assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Joan Marie Johnson is a lecturer at Northeastern Illinois University.
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