| Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 Volume 1 Edition Contributor(s): Sims, Anastatia Hodgens (Contribution by), McCaskill, Barbara (Contribution by), Marsh, Ben (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0820333379 ISBN-13: 9780820333373 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009008552 |
| Series: Southern Women: Their Lives and Times |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.02" W x 9" (1.32 lbs) 392 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - Georgia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in this volume include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia's history. Though sources for understanding the lives of women in Georgia during the colonial period are scarce, the early essays profile Mary Musgrove, an important player in the relations between the Creek nation and the British Crown, and the loyalist Elizabeth Johnston, who left Georgia for Nova Scotia in 1806. Another essay examines the near-mythical quality of the American Revolution-era accounts of "Georgia's War Woman," Nancy Hart. The later essays are multifaceted in their examination of the way different women experienced Georgia's antebellum social and political life, the tumult of the Civil War, and the lingering consequences of both the conflict itself and Emancipation. After the war, both necessity and opportunity changed women's lives, as educated white women like Eliza Andrews established or taught in schools and as African American women like Lucy Craft Laney, who later founded the Haines Institute, attended school for the first time. Georgia Women also profiles reform-minded women like Mary Latimer McLendon, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Mildred Rutherford, Nellie Peters Black, and Martha Berry, who worked tirelessly for causes ranging from temperance to suffrage to education. The stories of the women portrayed in this volume provide valuable glimpses into the lives and experiences of all Georgia women during the first century and a half of the state's existence. Historical figures include: Mary MusgroveNancy HartElizabeth Lichtenstein JohnstonEllen CraftFanny KembleFrances Butler LeighSusie King TaylorEliza Frances AndrewsAmanda America DicksonMary Ann Harris GayRebecca Latimer FeltonMary Latimer McLendonMildred Lewis RutherfordNellie Peters BlackLucy Craft LaneyMartha BerryCorra HarrisJuliette Gordon Low |
Contributor Bio(s): McCaskill, Barbara: - BARBARA McCASKILL is a professor of English at the University of Georgia, and codirector of the Civil Rights Digital Library Initiative. She is the author of Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919; Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Georgia); and a teaching edition of the 1860 memoir Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (also Georgia).Marsh, Ben: - BEN MARSH is a lecturer in history at Stirling University in Scotland.Wood, Betty: - BETTY WOOD is a Reader in American History, Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her other works include Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1775 and Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1830 (Georgia).Clinton, Catherine: - CATHERINE CLINTON is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has served on several faculties in her more than thirty years of teaching, including those at the University of Benghazi, Harvard University, and the Citadel (the Military College of South Carolina). She is the author and editor of more than two dozen volumes, including The Plantation Mistress; Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom; Mrs. Lincoln: A Life; and Civil War Stories (Georgia).Sweet, Julie Anne: - JULIE ANNE SWEET is an assistant professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.Leslie, Kent Anderson: - KENT ANDERSON LESLIE is an assistant professor of women's studies at Oglethorpe University.Gillespie, Michele: - 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).Chirhart, Ann Short: - ANN SHORT CHIRHART is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.Whites, Leeann: - LEEANN WHITES is the editor of Ohio Valley History and professor emerita of history at the University of Missouri. She is the author of The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender (Georgia) and Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Making of the New South and coeditor of Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War and Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence. |