Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Sparsity of Research and Publications on Southern Women: Definitional Complexities, Methodological Problems, and Other Impediments, Caroline Matheny Dillman; Chapter 2 A Myth of the Southern Lady: Antebellum Proslavery Rhetoric and the Proper Place of Woman, Virginia Kent Anderson Leslie; Chapter 3 “My OL’ Black Mammy” In American Historiography, Patricia Morton; Chapter 4 Toward an Understanding of the Quadroon Society of New Orleans, 1780–1860, Mary Gehman; Chapter 5 Lorraine Hansberry as Visionary: Black and White Antebellum Southern Women In Concert, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory; Chapter 6 Growing Up Female, White, and Southern in the 1850s and 1860s, Kathryn Palumbo; Chapter 7 The Civil War and Black Women on the Sea Islands, Carolyn E. Wedin; Chapter 8 Heirs of the Southern Progressive Tradition: Women In Southern Legislatures In the 1920s, Joanne V. Hawks, Mary Carolyn Ellis; Chapter 9 The Black Domestic In the South: Her Legacy as Mother and Mother Surrogate, Susan Tucker; Chapter 10 Socialization for Change: The Cultural Heritage of the White Southern Woman, Sarah Brabant; Chapter 11 The Code of the New Southern Belle: Generating Typifications to Structure Social Interaction, John Lynxwiler, Michele Wilson; Chapter 12 Ladies: South by Northwest, Jacqueline Boles, Maxine P. Atkinson; Chapter 13 Magnolias and Microchips: Regional Subcultural Constructions of Femininity, Susan Middleton-keirn; Chapter 14 And the Girls became Women: Aspirations and Expectations Versus Attainments of Low-Income Black and White Southern Females, William F. Kennel, Sarah M. Shoffner; Chapter 15 Southern Women and Textile Work: Job Satisfaction, Jan K. Bryant; Chapter 16 Stronger than Love: Louisiana’s Sugar Cane Women, Julia Burkart; Chapter 17 Women and Violence: The Intersection of Two Components of Southern Ideology, Becky L. Glass; Chapter 18 Southern White Women Business Owners: Variations on Scripts, Elaine Levin, Lyn Thaxton; Chapter 19 Southern Women Writing about Southern Women: Jill Mccorkle, Lisaalther, Gail Godwin, Ellen Gilchrist, and Lee Smith, Donna Kelleher Darden;

About the Author

Caroline Matheny Dillman- Reinhardt College Waleska, Georgia