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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the Texas A&M University Press Edition -- Foreword -- Part I: Essays -- Introduction: A Lifelong Interest -- The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas -- A Note on the Author -- Part III: Documents -- 1. Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments" (1848) -- 2. The Texas Reconstruction Convention Considers Woman Suffrage (1868-1869) -- 3. The American Woman Suffrage Association Petitions the Texas Legislature (1872) -- 4. The Texas Redeemer Convention Considers Woman Suffrage (1875) -- 5. "Idiots, Lunatics, Paupers, and Felons" (1875) -- 6. "The Ballot an Educator" (1881) -- 7. Mariana Folsom Organizes for Suffrage in Texas (1880s) -- 8. The WCTU Endorses Votes for Women (1888) -- 9. "If I were mayor of San Antonio . . ." (1893) -- 10. The Texas Equal Rights Association (1893) -- 11. Local Suffrage Societies Make the News (1893-1894) -- 12. Texas Suffragists Propose an Organizational Plan (1894) -- 13. Southern Ladies and Gentlemen (1894) -- 14. Texas Woman's Congress Meets in Dallas (1893-1894) -- 15. "Equal Suffrage Means Purer Laws" (1894) -- 16. Representative Tomkins Proposes a State Constitutional Amendment (1895) -- 17. Annette Finnigan Begins the Second Phase of the Texas Struggle (1903-1905) -- 18. Suffragists Testify at a Legislative Hearing (1907) -- 19. The Austin Woman Suffrage Association (1908-1915) -- 20. Eleanor Brackenridge Revives the Texas Woman Suffrage Association (1913) -- 21. Annette Finnigan Polls the Legislative Candidates (1914) -- 22. Minnie Fisher Cunningham Takes Charge (1915) -- 23. Houston Chronicle and Herald Endorses Suffrage (1917) -- 24. Men Support the Cause (1914-1919) -- 25. Texas Suffragists Send a Message to President Wilson (1917) -- 26. Minnie Fisher Cunningham Reports on State Suffrage Activities and War Work (1917) -- 27. Lobbying for the Vote (1917)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Race, Sex, and Self-Evident Truths: The Status of Slave Women during the Era of the American Revolution -- Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood -- Female Slaves: Sex Roles and Status in the Antebellum Plantation South -- Women's Perspective on the Patriarchy in the 1850S -- OfLily, Linda Brent, and Freud: A Non-Exceptionalist Approach to Race, Class, and Gender in the Slave South -- Radical Reconstruction and the Property Rights of Southern Women -- Bloody Terrain: Freedwomen, Sexuality, and Violence during Reconstruction -- Scarlett O'Hara: The Southern Lady as New Woman -- Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South -- Black Power: Catalyst for Feminism

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Difference that Difference Makes -- 1 "To Cast Our Mite on the Altar of Benevolence: Women Begin to Organize" (Excerpt) -- 2 "'There Sho' Was a Sight of Us': Enslaved Family and Community Rituals" -- 3 "The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands" -- 4 "Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants" -- 5 "Performing and Politicizing 'Ladyhood': Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism" -- 6 "'It Was the Women Who Made the Union': Organizing the Brotherhood" -- 7 "Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II" (Excerpt) -- 8 "'Black Beauticians Were Very Important': Southern Beauty Activists and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle" -- 9 "Organizing for Reproductive Control" -- 10 "Things Fall Apart -- the LGBT Center Holds" (Excerpt) -- List of Original Publications -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill). And yet the women of America's south iave always defied pat generalization, no more readily forced into facle categories than women in the country's other regions.Never before has a book of southern history so successfully integrated the experiences of white and non-white women. Among the myriad subjects addressed in the book are black women's suffrage, the economic realities of Choctaw women, female kin and female slaves in planters's wills, the northern myth of the rebel girl, second wave feminism in the South, and southern lesbians. Bringing to light the lives of Cherokee women, Appalachian "coal daughters," and Jewish women in the South, the essays all but one published in this book for the first time, ensure that monolithic representations of southern womanhood are a thing of the past.Filling a crucial gap in southern history and women's history, Women of the American South is a valuable reference and pedagogical aid for a wide range of scholars and students