The Varieties of Women’s Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post–Civil War Century

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“This is a superb selection of essays, showing the contribution that women of all stations and races made to the development of the Southeast. All these stories have not been told before.”–John Salmond, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia

The contributors to The Sorts of Women’s Experiences offer fourteen brief biographical essays revealing the broad range of the fascinating lives lived by women in the post-Civil War South. Arranged chronologically, they chart a course of generational change, yet reveal that regardless of limitations there were at all times more opportunities for atypical women than we have a tendency to realize.

By including stories about white and black, Jew and gentile, wealthy and poor, native and immigrant, widowed and married, the book explores the diversity and complexity of what it would mean to be a “Southern woman” at a time when social norms restricted many to their household and wifely duties.

A welcome addition to the literature on Southern women’s history, this book will appeal to a broad range of readers.

Larry Eugene Rivers is president of Fort Valley State University (Georgia). Canter Brown Jr., is professor of history and special assistant and counsel to the president at Fort Valley State University.

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