| Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, Volume 2 Contributor(s): Payne, Elizabeth Anne (Editor), Swain, Martha H. (Editor), Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820333948 ISBN-13: 9780820333946 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 920.720 |
| LCCN: 2003008776 |
| Series: Southern Women: Their Lives and Times |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.12" W x 8.94" (1.14 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - South - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Volume 1 of Mississippi Women enriched our understanding of women's roles in the state's history through profiles of notable, though often neglected, individuals. Volume 2 explores the historical forces that have shaped women's lives in Mississippi. Covering an expanse of time from early European settlement through the course of the twentieth century, the essays in the second volume acknowledge the state's diverse cultural and physical landscapes as they discuss how issues of race, gender, and class affected women's lives in various private and public spheres. Essays on the state's early history focus on such topics as Choctaw and Chickasaw women's influence on Native American society and tribal councils, daily life for free black women in slaveholding Natchez, and the efforts of white Protestant women to establish churches on the frontier. Several essays cast new light on legal concerns, including two on the pivotal Married Women's Property Act of 1839, while other essays examine the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on women's lives. The boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi are explored through an essay on the women of the mixed-race Knight family, notably the educator, nurse, and missionary Anna Knight. Women's experiences with rural electrification, consumerism, civil rights activism, social and service clubs, and feminism are among the other twentieth-century topics addressed in the essays. Volume 2 concludes with an essay on storytelling and remembrance that centers on the family of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist (and Mississippi native) William Raspberry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Payne, Elizabeth Anne: - ELIZABETH ANNE PAYNE is a professor of history at the University of Mississippi.Swain, Martha H.: - MARTHA H. SWAIN is Cornaro Professor of History Emerita at Texas Woman's University.Spruill, Marjorie Julian: - MARJORIE JULIAN SPRUILL is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina.Ballard, Michael B.: - MICHAEL B. BALLARD (1946-2016) was the university archivist at the Mitchell Memorial Library of Mississippi State University. His books include Landscapes of Battle: The Civil War; Pemberton: A Biography; A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Memoirs of Private David Holt; and Civil War Mississippi: A Guide.Cox, Karen L.: - KAREN L. COX is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her books include Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture; Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South; and Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture.Sparks, Randy J.: - RANDY J. SPARKS is a professor of history at Tulane University. His books include The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey, Religion in Mississippi, and several coedited volumes on the history of the Atlantic World.Broussard, Joyce L.: - JOYCE LINDA BROUSSARD is a professor of U.S. southern and women's history at California State University Northridge. She served as codirector of the Natchez Courthouse Records Project, which included among its activities the biennial Historic Natchez Conferences. Broussard has published in the field of gender and women's history, including essays in support of an educator's website for PBS documentaries dealing with slavery, the Supreme Court, and the history of Jim Crow and racism in America.Crosby, Emilye: - EMILYE CROSBY is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi.Ownby, Ted: - TED OWNBY is a professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi and is the director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is the author of American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920. |