Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader

Book Overview

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill). And yet the women of America's south iave always defied pat generalization, no more readily forced into facle categories than women in the country's other regions.
Never before has a book of southern history so successfully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726550
• ISBN13: 9780814726556
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"