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"Everyone has the war fever": Anglo Texan women prepare for secession and war / Vicki Betts -- Caroline Sedberry, politician's wife: an ordinary woman in extraordinary times / Dorothy Ewing -- He said, she said: gendered correspondence among Texans / Beverly Rowe -- Finding joy through hard times: Texas women's recreation during the Civil War / Brittany Bounds -- Black Texas women and the freedom war / Bruce A. Glasrud -- Black women and Supreme Court decisions during the Civil War era / Linda S. Hudson -- Mexican-Texan women in the Civil War / Jerry Thompson and Elizabeth Mata -- Courage on a Texas frontier: German Texas Unionist women on the Civil War homefront / Judith Dykes-Hoffman -- "In favor of our fathers' country and government:" Unionist women in north Texas / Rebecca Sharpless -- "They call us all renegades in Tyler": elite refugee women in Civil War Texas / Candice N. Shockley -- Not your typical Southern belles: women on the western frontier of Texas / Deborah M. Liles.

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.

Pocahontas was not the only one : Indian women and their English liaisons in seventeenth-century Virginia / Virginia Bernhard -- "Nocturnal adventures in Mulatto Alley" : sex in Charleston, South Carolina / Cynthia M. Kennedy -- "Mah pappy belong to a neighbor" : the effects of abroad marriages on Missouri slave families / Diane Mutti Burke -- "With humbled and painfully blited feelings" : a southwest Virginia woman in "the great wourld" of Richmond, 1837-1840 /Norma Taylor Mitchell -- Active faith : the participation of Louisiana women in antebellum religious services / Julia Huston Nguyen -- A history of captivity and a history of freedom : race in a Civil War household of single women / Laura Odendahl -- Women's role in the transformation of Winnie Davis into the daughter of the Confederacy / Cita Cook -- Abbie Holmes Christensen and the politics of maternalism and race : Beaufort, South Carolina, 1890-1938 / Monica Maria Tetzlaff -- Promoting tradition, embracing change : the Poppenheim sisters of Charleston / Sidney R. Bland -- A murder in the Kentucky mountains : Pine Mountain settlement school and community relations in the 1920s / Deborah L. Blackwell -- Gender and sectionalism in New Deal politics : Southern white women's campaign for labor reform / Landon R. Y. Storrs -- Exposing anger and discontent : Esther Bubley's portrait of the upper South during World War II / Melissa A. Mceuen -- "With all deliberate speed" : the integration of the League of Women Voters of New Orleans, 1953-1963 / Shannon L. Frystak

"Expanded from papers presented at the Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, this collection demonstrates how women of different races and classes transformed the South during its most crucial turning points, including post-Revolution, Civil War, Jim Crow era, World War I, and the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher