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The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for women's suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white society. This book brings together nine essays that examine the importance of gender, race, and culture in the New South, offering a rich and varied analysis of the multifaceted role of gender in the lives of black and white southerners in the troubled decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ranging widely from conservative activism by white women in 1920s Georgia to black women's political involvement in 1950s Memphis, many of these essays focus on southern women's increasing public activities and high-profile images in the twentieth century. They tell how women shouldered responsibilities for local, national, and international interests; but just as nineteenth-century women's status could be at risk from too much public presence, women of the New South stepped gingerly into the pulsing public arena, taking care to work within what they considered their current

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Author

Jonathan Daniel Wells, Sheila R. Phipps

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826218636

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Gender Studies