Sisterly networks : fifty years of Southern women's histories /

Sisterly networks : fifty years of Southern women's histories / edited by Catherine Clinton ; foreword by William A. Link. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (viii, 146 pages) : illustrations. - Frontiers of the American South .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Barbarians at the Doorbell: Tales from the Archives / Testing Our Mettle: Women's and Gender History in the Battle over the Civil War / A Place Where Women Can Feel Valued or Why Academic Professional Associations Matter, Especially for Women / "Can the Sistas Get Some History Too?": Transformations in Southern Black Women's History / Present at the Birth of a New History: A Southern Midwives' Tale / Catherine Clinton -- Catherine Clinton -- Michele Gillespie -- Melissa Walker -- Cherisse Jones-Branch -- Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

"Tracing the development of the field of southern women's history over the past half century, this book shows how pioneering feminists laid the foundation for a strong community of sister scholars and delves into the work of an organization central to this movement, the Southern Association for Women Historians"--



9780813057620 9780813065670

2020017095


Southern Association for Women Historians.


Women--History.--Southern States
Women's studies--History.--Southern States
Women--Social conditions.--Southern States


Electronic Books.

HQ1438 / .S578 2020