Chapter Three. A Struggle for Survival Non-Elite White Women in Lowcountry Georgia, 1790-183

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Chapter One. Writing the History of Southern Women 1
5. Chapter Two. From Corn Mothers to Cotton Spinners Continuity in Choctaw Women's Economic Life, A.D.950-1830 8
6. Chapter Three. A Struggle for Survival Non-Elite White Women in Lowcountry Georgia, 1790-183 26
7. Chapter Four. Cherokee Women and Cultural Change 43
8. Chapter Five. The Politics of Pedagogy and Judaism in the Early Republican South: The Case of Rachel and Eliza Mordecai 56
9. Chapter Six. Equality Deferred, Opportunity Pursued The Sisters of Wachovia 74
10. Chapter Seven. According to His Wish and Desire Female Kin and Female Slaves in Planter Wills 90
11. Chapter Eight. The Northern Myth of the Rebel Girl 120
12. Chapter Nine "Stand by Your Man" The Ladies Memorial Association and the Reconstruction of Southern White Manhood 133
13. Chapter Ten. Susannah and the Elders or Potiphar' s Wife? Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute 150
14. Chapter Eleven. Waiting for the Millennium, Remembering the Past: Appalachian Women in Time and Place 165
15. Chapter Twelve "Most Sacrificing" Service: The Educational Leadership of Lucy Craft Laney and Mary McLeod Bethune 189
16. Chapter Thirteen. Black Women's Culture of Resistance and the Right to Vote 204
17. Chapter Fourteen. Renegotiating Liberty Garveyism, Women, and Grassroots Organizing in Virginia 220
18. Chapter Fifteen. A New Deal for Southern Women Gender and Race in Women's Work Relief 241
19. Chapter Sixteen. Searching for Southern Lesbian History 258
20. Chapter Seventeen. Second Wave Feminism(s) and the South: The Difference That Differences Make 273
21. Contributors 303
22. Index 307