Marjorie Julian Spruill & Valinda W. Littlefield 
South Carolina Women [PDF ebook] 
Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

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The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules—including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women—were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others.
The volume begins with a profile of Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, who founded the Penn School on St. Helena Island for former slaves. Subsequent essays look at such women as the five Rollin sisters, members of a prominent black family who became passionate advocates for women’s rights during Reconstruction; writer Josephine Pinckney, who helped preserve African American spirituals and explored conflicts between the New and Old South in her essays and novels; and Dr. Matilda Evans, the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state. Intractable racial attitudes often caused women to follow separate but parallel paths, as with Louisa B. Poppenheim and Marion B. Wilkinson. Poppenheim, who was white, and Wilkinson, who was black, were both driving forces in the women’s club movement. Both saw clubs as a way not only to help women and children but also to showcase these positive changes to the wider nation. Yet the two women worked separately, as did the white and black state federations of women’s clubs.
Often mixing deference with daring, these women helped shape their society through such avenues as education, religion, politics, community organizing, history, the arts, science, and medicine. Women in the mid- and late twentieth century would build on their accomplishments.

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GISELLE ROBERTS is a research associate in the department of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Confederate Belle.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 336 ● ISBN 9780820336121 ● Tamaño de archivo 4.2 MB ● Editor Marjorie Julian Spruill & Valinda W. Littlefield ● Editorial University of Georgia Press ● Ciudad Athens ● País US ● Publicado 2010 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5513375 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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