Women and gender in the new South

1865-1945

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English
Pages
271

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Women and gender in the new South: 1865-1945
2009, Harlan Davidson, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Introduction: women and families in the Civil War era
War's end
Women, gender, and race in reconstructing the South
Reconstructing the South
African American families after the war
Gender reconstruction
White families after the war; gender rehabilitation
Farming among African Americans
Women's invisible household economy
White farming families and women's work
From family farm to mill and village
Gender and race in the coal fields of Alabama
Gender, race, and the construction of white supremacy
Creating the lost cause
Educating the new generation
Changes in white attitude
The gendered origins of disfranchisement
The success of the Populist Party and its aftermath
Lynching for Southern womanhood
Prelude to reform in the South
Religion and new roles for women
Relief and benevolent institutions
Temperance and prohibition
The farmers' alliances and women's education
The women's club movement
Women and the progressive spirit
Southern progressivism
Women and municipal housekeeping
Progressive reform at the state level
Reform of the penal system
Educating the children of the South
Women and labor reform
Health reform and eugenics
Gender and legal reform
Women and politics in the South
The strategic South in the woman suffrage movement
First generation of woman suffragists, 1890/1910
Second generation of woman suffragists, 1910/1920
African American women organize for the vote
World War I
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
The new woman in politics
Gender, race, and the "modern" decades
The thoroughly modern Southern woman
Southern music; the gendered art
Women writers and Southern literature
Re-creating a white man's South
Black Southerners and the great migration
Interracial beginnings and the anti-lynching campaign
Women, gender, the Great Depression, and the New Deal
Early depression in the South
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
The New Deal in the South
Down on the farm
Women, textiles, and the NRA
Bubbling radicalism
Epilogue
Bibliographical essay
Acknowledgments
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Wheeling, Ill
Series
American history series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.40975/0904
Library of Congress
HQ1438.S63 T87 2009, HQ1438.S63T87 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
271

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Open Library
OL22542040M
ISBN 13
9780882952659
LCCN
2008040019
OCLC/WorldCat
254528239
Goodreads
6774815

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