Women and Gender in the New South

Elizabeth Hayes Turner is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Women, Culture, and Community; Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 (1997), which won three scholarly awards, and co-author of Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst (2000). Professor Turner is the author of several articles and co-editor of Hidden Histories of Women in the New South (1994). Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History (1998); Major Problems in the History of the American South (1999); Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians (2004); and Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (2007), which won the T. R. Fehrenbach Award in Texas history. In 2003 she was a Fulbright Lecturer to the University of Genoa, Italy. Her teaching specialties are history of the New South, Southern Autobiography, and 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. This book presents the history of conservative, moderate, and radical women's groups.

Introduction: Women & Families in the Civil War Era; Women, Gender & Race in Reconstructing the South; Gender, Race & the Construction of White Supremacy; Prelude to Reform in the South; Southern Women & the Progressive Spirit; Women & Politics in the South; Gender, Race & the "Modern" Decades; The Great Depression & the New Deal; Southern Women & World War II; Index.