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Searching for Their Places is a collection inspired by the
Fifth Southern Conference on Women's History. The essays in this
volume are particularly astute in assessing how southern women,
in the course of "searching for their places," have individually
or collectively sought to empower themselves. The essays, written
by outstanding historians in this field, represent some of the
freshest and most exciting scholarship about women in the South.
They convincingly illustrate how the national experience looks
different when southern women become the focus.
The essayists use extensive analyses of primary source materials to examine a variety of issues that have confronted women in the South from the days of English colonization through the civil rights struggles of the post-World War II era. The collection is well balanced in its periodization, with one essay on the seventeenth century, four on the antebellum years, one on the Civil War, three on the immediate postbellum era, and four based in the twentieth century.
Studying women of different colors, backgrounds, and stations across the region and across four centuries, Searching for Their Places will appeal to the general reader and anyone interested in women's studies.
About the Editors
Thomas H. Appleton, Jr., is Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. He is the coeditor of several books, including Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers That Be.
Angela Boswell is Associate Professor of History at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She is the author of Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873.
Other books in the series
Southern Women Series
Contents
IntroductionStephanie Cole
Pocahontas Was Not the Only One: Indian Women and Their English
Liaisons in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Virginia Bernhard
"Nocturnal Adventures in Mulatto Alley": Sex in Charleston, South
Carolina
Cynthia M. Kennedy
"Mah Pappy Belong to a Neighbor": The Effects of Abroad Marriages
on Missouri Slave Families
Diane Mutti Burke
"With Humbled and Painfully Blited Feelings":
A Southwest Virginia Woman in "the Great Wourld" of Richmond,
1837-1840
Norma Taylor Mitchell
Active Faith:The Participation of Louisiana Women in Antebellum
Religious Services
Julia Huston Nguyen
A History of Captivity and a History of Freedom: Race in a Civil
War Household of Single Women
Laura Odendahl
Women's Role in the Transformation of Winnie Davis into the
Daughter of the Confederacy
Cita Cook
Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Maternalism and Race
Beaufort, South Carolina, 1890-1938
Monica Maria Tetzlaff
Promoting Tradition, Embracing Change: The Poppenheim Sisters of
Charleston
Sidney R. Bland
A Murder in the Kentucky Mountains: Pine Mountain Settlement
School and Community Relations in the 1920s
Deborah L. Blackwell
Gender and Sectionalism in New Deal Politics: Southern White
Women's Campaign for Labor Reform
Landon R. Y. Storrs
Exposing Anger and Discontent: Esther Bubley's Portrait of the
Upper South during World War II
Melissa A. McEuen
"With All Deliberate Speed": The Integration of the League of
Women Voters of New Orleans, 1953-1963
Shannon L. Frystak