ISBN: 9780826216298

Work, Family, and Faith. Short Title WORK FAMILY & FAITH. Publisher University of Missouri Press. Place of Publication Missouri. Publication Date 2006-01-31. Country of Publication United… More...

Work, Family, and Faith. Short Title WORK FAMILY & FAITH. Publisher University of Missouri Press. Place of Publication Missouri. Publication Date 2006-01-31. Country of Publication United States. Audience Age 18-10. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   Work, Family, and Faith by Melissa Walker This collection of essays takes readers across the twentieth-century American South, from rural roadside stands to the Birmingham Iron Plant's ""Sloss Quarters."" Covering the full scope of southern rural women's varied lives, this book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in sociology, women's studies, or southern history. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description At the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of rural southerners were dependent on agriculture and eked out a living as tenants on land owned by someone else. Women took on multiple duties, from child rearing to labor in the fields, to help meet their own goals of independence, well-being, and family persistence on the land. Over the course of the century, however, women found their lives and their work transformed. Government intervention, the Great Depression, and industrial job opportunities created by the two world wars and the development of Sun Belt industries lured or pushed tens of thousands of black and white rural southerners off the land. As the American South changed around them, becoming more urban and industrialized, some women struggled to help their families survive in the increasingly large-scale and commercial agricultural economy, while other women eagerly seized opportunities to engage in rural reform, get better educations, and work at off-farm jobs. Whether they moved to the cities or stayed on the farms, most of these women continued to struggle against poverty and relied on tradition and inner strength to get by. This well-researched, sharply focused, and keenly insightful collection of essays takes readers across the twentieth-century South, from rural roadside stands to tobacco fields to the Birmingham Iron Plant's ""Sloss Quarters."" Covering the full scope of southern rural women's varied lives, this book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in sociology, women's studies, or southern history. Author Biography Melissa Walker is George Dean Johnson Jr. Professor of History at Converse College Table of Contents Part One: Life on the Farm; "Work Was My Pleasure": An Oral History of Nellie Stancil Langley by Lu Ann Jones; "Pretty Near Every Woman Done a Man's Work": Women and Field Work in the Rural South by Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker; Part Two: Rural Reformers at Work; "A Responsibility on Women That Cannot Be Delegated to Father, Husband, or Son": Farm Women and Cooperation in the Tobacco South by Evan P. Bennett; "Seizing the Opportunity" Home Demonstration Curb Markets in Virginia by Ann E. McCleary; Revitalizing Southern Homes: Rural Women, the Professionalization of Home Demonstration Work, and the Limits of Reform, 1917-1945 by Lynne Rieff; "You Got Us All A-Pullin' Together" Southern Methodist Deaconesses in the Rural South, 1922-1940 by Lois E. Myers; "Shepherdess of the Hills": The Salvation Army Mountain Ministry of Cecil Brown by Connie Park Rice; Part Three: Town and Country Come Together; Goin' North: The African American Women of Sloss Quarters by Karen R. Utz; "It Takes a Special Kind of Woman to Work Up There": Race, Gender and the Impact of the Apparel Industry on Southern Alabama, 1937-2001 by Michelle Haberland. Review "This collection . . . represents state-of-the-art women's history. It proves the point that women's historians have long asserted but not always demonstrated: that unless women's lives are considered, the history of societies' economic, political, and social realms will remain incomplete and inadequately understood."--Victoria Bynum, author of Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South Review Quote This collection . . . represents state-of-the-art women's history. It proves the point that women's historians have long asserted but not always demonstrated: that unless women's lives are considered, the history of societies' economic, political, and social realms will remain incomplete and inadequately understood." -Victoria Bynum, author of Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South Details ISBN0826216293 Short Title WORK FAMILY & FAITH Pages 294 Publisher University of Missouri Press Language English ISBN-10 0826216293 ISBN-13 9780826216298 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-01-31 Imprint University of Missouri Press Subtitle Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century Place of Publication Missouri Country of Publication United States Edited by Melissa Walker Audience Age 18-10 Birth 1962 Author Melissa Walker DOI 10.1604/9780826216298 AU Release Date 2006-02-07 NZ Release Date 2006-02-07 UK Release Date 2006-02-07 DEWEY 305.420975 Illustrations illustrations, index Audience Undergraduate US Release Date 2006-01-31 We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! 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2006, ISBN: 9780826216298

Univ of Missouri Pr, 2006. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 294 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches., Univ of Missouri Pr, 2006, 6

2006, ISBN: 9780826216298

Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University of Missouri Press], University of Missouri Press, 2006