North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gillespie, Michele. Series: Southern Women : Their Lives and Times. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
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, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Southern Women : Their Lives and Times
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820340005
SKU
V9780820340005
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About
Michele Gillespie (Editor) MICHELE GILLESPIE is a professor of history and dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University. She is also author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860 (Georgia) and co-editor of ten books, including North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia). Sally G. McMillen (Editor) ... Read more
Reviews for North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)
The stories in this wonderful addition to the Southern Women: Their Lives and Times series are a pleasure to read and contemplate. The diversity of women featured has much to teach us about North Carolina history, as well as about the larger story of women in the South and, indeed, the nation.
coeditor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and ... Read more
From colonial patriots and slave resisters to Progressive Era reformers and self-made women, this excellent collection of essays challenges the reader to recognize the remarkable contributions and sustaining histories of black, white, and Native American women in the Tar Heel State.
author of Women and Gender in the New South, 1865–1945
Once you have read the stories of these amazing women, you will never see southern history in quite the same way again. This sweeping portrait of women’s struggles and accomplishments from the mountains to the coast and from early settlement to the early twentieth century represents the culmination of an outpouring of extraordinary scholarship on North Carolina women that began in the 1980s. It should be read by anyone who cares about our common past.
author of Revolt against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching
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coeditor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and ... Read more
From colonial patriots and slave resisters to Progressive Era reformers and self-made women, this excellent collection of essays challenges the reader to recognize the remarkable contributions and sustaining histories of black, white, and Native American women in the Tar Heel State.
author of Women and Gender in the New South, 1865–1945
Once you have read the stories of these amazing women, you will never see southern history in quite the same way again. This sweeping portrait of women’s struggles and accomplishments from the mountains to the coast and from early settlement to the early twentieth century represents the culmination of an outpouring of extraordinary scholarship on North Carolina women that began in the 1980s. It should be read by anyone who cares about our common past.
author of Revolt against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching
Show Less