Women and Gender in the New South

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 change or repression. In Women and Gender in the New South, Elizabeth Hayes Turner draws on a multiplicity of sources—part of the great outpouring of works in the field of women’s history that has emerged in the past 40 years—to bring together in one volume the history of conservative, moderate, and even radical women’s groups. The book demonstrates how women and men from different racial and economic backgrounds not only weathered but also shaped the political and cultural landscape of the New South. Employing women's history, gender analysis, and race and class studies, Women and Gender in the New South shapes this accumulated scholarship into an interpretative overlay that takes southern women and men from the ravages of one war to the opportunities of another.

Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Women and Families in the Civil War Era War’s End Chapter One Women, Gender, and Race in Reconstructing the South Reconstructing the South African American Families after the War White Families after the War Farming among African Americans Women’s Invisible Household Economy African American Women and Paid Work White Farming Families and Women’s Work From Family Farm to Mill and Village Gender and Race in the Coal Fields of Alabama, 1878-1908 Chapter Two Gender, Race, and the Construction of White Supremacy Creating the Lost Cause Educating the New Generation Changes in Whites’ Attitudes The Gendered Origins of Disfranchisement The Success of the Populist Party and its Aftermath Lynching for Southern Womanhood Chapter Three Prelude to Reform in the South Religion and New Roles for Women Relief and benevolent Institutions Temperance and Prohibition The Farmers’ Alliances and Women’s Education The Women’s Club Movement Chapter Four Southern Women and the Progressive Spirit Southern Progressivism Women and Municipal Housekeeping Progressive Reform at the State Level Reform of the Penal System Educating the Children of the South Women and Labor Reform Health Reform and Eugenics Gender and Legal Reform Chapter Five Women and Politics in the South The Strategic South in the Woman Suffrage Movement First-Generation Woman Suffragists, 1890-1910 Second-Generation Woman Suffragists, 1910-1920 African American Women Organize for the Vote World War I Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment The New Woman in Politics Chapter Six Gender, Race, and the “Modern” Decades The Thoroughly Modern Southern Woman Southern Music: The Gendered Art Women Writers and Southern Literature Re-creating a White Man’s South Black Southerners and the Great Migration Interracial Beginnings and the Anti-Lynching Campaign Chapter Seven The Great Depression, and the New Deal The Depression Comes Early to the South Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal The New Deal in the South Down on the Farm Women, Textiles, and the NRA Bubbling Radicalism Epilogue: Southern Women and World War II Bibliographical Essay Index Photoessay Follows Page 92