North Carolina Women - Their Lives and Times

Informationen zum Autor Michele Gillespie (Editor) MICHELE GILLESPIE is a professor of history and dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University. She is also author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 (Georgia) and co-editor of ten books, including North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia). Sally G. McMillen (Editor) SALLY G. McMILLEN is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College. She is the author of Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing ; Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South ; To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915 ; and Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement . Klappentext By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. This is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives. Zusammenfassung The second of two volumes that explore North Carolina women’s lives. These essays cover the period beginning with women born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but who made their greatest contributions to social, political, cultural, legal, and economic life during the late progressive era through the late twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Michele (EDT)/ McMillen Gillespie
• Assisted by: Michele Gillespie (Editor), Sally McMillen (Editor), Sally G McMillen (Editor), Sally G. McMillen (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9780820340029
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4002-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Series: Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous