Sex, Race, and the Role of Women in the South

by Joanne V. Hawks (Editor), Sheila L. Skemp (Editor)

Overview

This collection of six conference papers from the Eighth Annual Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History, held in 1982 at the University of Mississippi, seeks to assess the relationship of southern women in a world complicated by racial and class antagonisms.

Modernization and urbanization in the north made women's culture more nearly autonomous in that region. This led to the development of a greater sense of self-worth and a heightened militancy in northern women. Southern sisters, both black and white, have existed in far more restrictive roles than their northern counterparts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617030574
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	02/21/2011
Series:	Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)