Daughters of Canaan-Pa

" From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women , images in film and fiction tend to obscure the diversity of American women below the Mason-Dixon line. In a work that lays bare many myths and stereotypes, Margaret Ripley Wolfe offers the first professional synthesis of southern women's experiences across the centuries. In telling their stories, she considers many lives-those of Native-American, African American, and white women from the tidewater and Appalachia to the Gulf Coastal Plain and Mississippi Delta, women whose varied economic and social circumstances resist simple explanations. Here are stories of wives, mothers, pioneers, soldiers, suffragists, politicians, and activists-women with ambition, grit and endurance.

About the author

Margaret Ripley Wolfe is a native of the Kingsport area and professor of history at East Tennessee State University.

Summary

From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women, images of southern females that emerge from fiction and film tend to obscure the diversity of American women from below the Mason-Dixon line.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Ripley Wolfe
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.1995
• EAN: 9780813108377
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-0837-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 474 g
• Series: New Perspectives on the South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories