Beyond image and convention : explorations in southern women's history / edited by Janet Lee Coryell [and others].

Other author Coryell, Janet L., 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia : University of Missouri Press, ©1998.
Descriptionx, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women--Southern States. --History.
African American women--Southern States. --History.

SeriesSouthern women
Southern women. ^A354955
Contents "Common disturbers of the peace" : the politics of white women's sexual misconduct in colonial North Carolina / Kirsten Fischer -- Between mistress and slave : Elizabeth Wirt's white housekeepers, 1808-1825 / Anya Jabour -- Enthusiasm, possession, and madness : gender and the opposition to methodism in the South, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Making the most of life's opportunities : a slave woman and her family in Abingdon, Virginia / Norma Taylor Mitchell -- Her will against theirs : Eda Hickam and the ambiguity of freedom in postbellum Missouri / Kimberly Schreck -- Half my heart in Dixie : Southern identity and the Civil War in the writings of Mary Virginia Terhune / Karen Manners Smith -- Making the connection : public health policy and Black women's volunteer work / Susan L. Smith -- Sarah Patton Boyle's desegregated heart / Joanna Bowen Gillespie - Alice Norwood Spearman Wright : civil rights apostle to South Carolinians / Marcia G. Synnott.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 98006206
ISBN0826211720 (alk. paper)
ISBN0826211739 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1438.S63 B48 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold