Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Editors ' Introduction -- 1. Gentry Women and the Transformation of Daily Life in Jeffersonian and Antebellum Virginia -- 2. Jane C. Washington, Family, and Nation at Mount Vernon, 1830-1855 -- 3. "I Desire to Give My Black Family Their Freedom" -- 4. Seeking a Moral Economy of War -- 5. Redirecting the Tide of White Imperialism -- 6. Unlikely Allies -- 7. Solving the Girl Problem -- 8. To See Past the Differences to the Fundamentals -- 9. Louise Thompson Patterson and the Southern Roots of the Popular Front -- 10. Women's and Girls' Activism in 1960s Southwest Georgia -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.