Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Book Overview

Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle- and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually transforming the cultural and political landscape of their community? Using Galveston as a case study, Elizabeth Hayes Turner asks who where the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive reforms and the women sufferage movement. Turner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086880
• ISBN13: 9780195086881
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"