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Women and gender in the new South : 1865-1945 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turner, Elizabeth Hayes
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wheeling, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, Inc., [2009]
Series:American history series (Arlington Heights, Ill.)
Subjects:
Women > Southern States > History.
African American women > Southern States > History.
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.