Work, family, and faith [[electronic resource] ] : rural southern women in the twentieth century / / edited with an introduction by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless
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Work, family, and faith [[electronic resource] ] : rural southern women in the twentieth century / / edited with an introduction by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xi, 294 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 305.40975/0917340904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rural women - Southern States - History - 20th century |
| Social change - Southern States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Rural conditions |
| Altri autori: |
WalkerMelissa <1962->
SharplessRebecca
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Work, family, and faith |
| ISBN: | 0-8262-6508-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783635403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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