Work, family, and faith : rural southern women in the twentieth century /
"Collection of essays capturing the transformation of the American South from agrarian to industrial/commercial over the course of the twentieth century from the perspective of women struggling against poverty by relying on tradition and inner strength"--Provided by publisher.
| Други автори: | Walker, Melissa, 1962-, Sharpless, Rebecca. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=157346 |
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Print version::
Work, family, and faith. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker
- "Work was my pleasure" : an oral history of Nellie Stancil Langley / Lu Ann Jones
- "Pretty near every woman done a man's work" : women and field work in the rural South / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker
- "A responsibility on women that cannot be delegated to father, husband, or son" : farm women and cooperation in the tobacco South / Evan P. Bennett
- "Seizing the opportunity" : home demonstration curb markets in Virginia / Ann E. McCleary
- Revitalizing southern homes : rural women, the professionalization of home demonstration work, and the limits of reform, 1917-1945 / Lynne Rieff
- "You got us all a-pullin' together" : southern Methodist deaconesses in the rural South, 1922-1940 / Lois E. Myers
- "Shepherdess of the hills" : the Salvation Army mountain ministry of Cecil Brown / Connie Park Rice
- Goin' north : the African American women of Sloss Quarters / Karen R. Utz
- "It takes a special kind of woman to work up there" : race, gender, and the impact of the apparel industry on southern Alabama, 1937-2001 / Michelle Haberland.