Bøger af Joan Marie Johnson

Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform. Often doing similar work for different reasons, both groups emphasized history, memory, and education. Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, "Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segregation in which southern equaled white and black equaled inferior.

From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges. This title looks at how such educations, influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in social reforms of the Progressive Era South.