The Varieties of Women’s Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post-Civil War Century. Edited by Larry Eugene Rivers & Canter Brown Jr. [Signed].
first edition
2009 · Gainesville, FL
by Rivers, Larry Eugene and Canter Brown, Jr.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, (2009). First Edition. ALS laid-in. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), xvi + 342 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Most scholars acknowledge, despite excellent contributions in recent decades, the paucity of available material on the experiences of women -- with the possible exception of wealthy white women -- in the southeastern region of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a crucial era in the evolution of women’s rights and the roles played by women in the public sphere. The contributors to The Varieities of Women’s Experiences offer fourteen compelling biographical essays revealing a broad range of the fascinating lives lived by women in the post-Civil War South. Arranged chronologically, they chart a course of generational change, yet show that despite limitations there were always more opportunities for extraordinary women than we tend to realize. The essays in this book explore the diversity and complexity of what it could mean to be a Southern woman at a time when social norms restricted many to the home. Women not uncommonly performed a broader range of public functions than generally assumed, including those of community builders and political activists. They also dealt with life and work complications and challenges of a variety and severity that have often gone unrecognized. Editors Rivers and Brown draw back the curtain of history upon the ives of individuals whose legacies deserve our attention -- southern women who defied the stereotypes of the post-Emancipation era but received little recognition for their actions. (Inventory #: els2692)