South Carolina Women (English, Marjorie Julian Spruill | Valinda W. Littlefield | Joan Marie Johnson)

About the Book

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules--including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women--were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and other…

ISBN: 9780820329383