03137nam 2200565Ia 450 991081112050332120200520144314.00-8262-6508-1(CKB)1000000000246919(SSID)ssj0000273917(PQKBManifestationID)11245518(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273917(PQKBWorkID)10315248(PQKB)10587799(OCoLC)647502786(MiAaPQ)EBC3570874(Au-PeEL)EBL3570874(CaPaEBR)ebr10128982(OCoLC)70823552(EXLCZ)99100000000024691920050929d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWork, family, and faith rural southern women in the twentieth century /edited with an introduction by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc2006xi, 294 p. illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8262-1629-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Rural womenSouthern StatesHistory20th centurySocial changeSouthern StatesSouthern StatesRural conditionsRural womenHistorySocial change305.40975/0917340904Walker Melissa1962-856167Sharpless Rebecca1607518MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811120503321Work, family, and faith3933843UNINA