Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair /
This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at a world's fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer re-creates the sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans after the Civil War and Recons...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Summary: | This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at a world's fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer re-creates the sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans after the Civil War and Reconstruction. She focuses on how difficult unity was to achieve, even when diverse women professed a common goal. Such celebrities as Julia Ward Howe and Susan B. Anthony brought national debates on women's issues to the South for the first time, and journalists and ordinary women reacted. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781628461343 1628461349 9781496804488 1496804481 |