Gender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth, says LeeAnn Whites. Gender concepts and constructions, Whites says, d
In every age and in every culture there have been women who challenged the prevailing gender prescriptions and struck a nerve, resulting in waves of either chan
For Atlanta, the early decades of the twentieth century brought chaotic economic and demographic growth. Women--black and white--emerged as a visible new compon
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage,
Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes