The Varieties of Women's Experiences - Portraits of Southern Women in the Post-Civil War Century

Informationen zum Autor Larry Eugene Rivers is president of Fort Valley State University (Georgia). Canter Brown Jr. , is professor of history and special assistant and counsel to the president at Fort Valley State University. Klappentext The contributors to "The Varieties of Women's Experiences" offer fourteen brief biographical essays revealing the broad range of the fascinating lives lived by women in the post-Civil War South. Arranged chronologically, they chart a course of generational change, yet reveal that despite limitations there were always more opportunities for extraordinary women than we tend to realize. By including stories about white and black, Jew and gentile, rich and poor, native and immigrant, widowed and married, the book explores the diversity and complexity of what it could mean to be a "Southern woman" at a time when social norms restricted many to their household and wifely duties. A welcome addition to the literature on Southern women's history, this book will appeal to a broad range of readers.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Eugene (EDT)/ Brown Rivers
• Assisted by: Jr Canter Brown (Editor), Canter Brown Jr (Editor), Larry Eugene Rivers (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2010
• EAN: 9780813036816
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-3681-6
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous