Genteel Rebel
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Genteel Rebel
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Author : Sheila R. Phipps
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2003-10-13
Genteel Rebel written by Sheila R. Phipps and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-13 with History categories.
This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman’s life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819–1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren’s son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister-in-law, future Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee debated with senators, fed foreign emissaries and correspondents, scolded generals, and nursed soldiers. As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces’ dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished. Lee’s personal history is an intriguing story. It is also an account of the complex social relations that characterized nineteenth-century life. She was an elite southern woman who knew the rules but who also flouted and other times flaunted the prevailing gender arrangements. Her views on status suggest that the immeasurable markers of prestige were much more important than wealth in her social stratum. She had strong ideas about who was (or was not) her “equal,” yet she married a man of quite modest means. Lee’s biography also enlarges our view of Confederate patriotism, revealing a war within a war and divisions arising as much from politics and geography as from issues of slavery and class. Mary Greenhow Lee was a woman of her time and place — one whose youthful rebellion against her society’s standards yielded to her desire to preserve that society’s way of life. Genteel Rebel illustrates the value of biography as history as it narrates the eventful life of a surprisingly powerful southern lady.
Women S Health
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Author : George A. Bray
language : en
Publisher: Lsu Press
Release Date : 2000-06-01
Women S Health written by George A. Bray and has been published by Lsu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with Medical categories.
Outstanding physicians and scientists from throughout the nation offer their insights into the role preventive medicine plays in reducing the risks of chronic diseases in women. Topics include discussions of the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and osteoporosis. The effectiveness of screening methods such as mammograms, colorectal exams, and Pap tests are discussed. Other papers establish the value of hormone therapy, weight loss, and smoking cessation in promoting women's health.
The Art Of A Genteel Rebel
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Author : Kristin Carolyn Curry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Art Of A Genteel Rebel written by Kristin Carolyn Curry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Authors, American categories.
Confederate Reckoning
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Author : Stephanie McCurry
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-07
Confederate Reckoning written by Stephanie McCurry and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-07 with History categories.
Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. When the grandiosity of Southerners’ national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people—white women and slaves—and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise.
Mary Cassatt
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Author : Cos Ferrara
language : en
Publisher: Girls Explore
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Mary Cassatt written by Cos Ferrara and has been published by Girls Explore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Artists categories.
Describes the life and career of the American painter who was a member of the French impressionist movement of the late 1800's.
Women S War Fighting And Surviving The Civil War
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Author : Stephanie Mccurry
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2019
Women S War Fighting And Surviving The Civil War written by Stephanie Mccurry and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
The Civil War is remembered as a war of brother against brother, with women standing innocently on the sidelines. But battlefield realities soon challenged this simplistic understanding of women's place in war. Stephanie McCurry shows that women were indispensable to the unfolding of the Civil War, as they have been--and continue to be--in all wars.
North Carolina Women
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Author : Michele Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2014-02-15
North Carolina Women written by Michele Gillespie and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-15 with History categories.
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time, place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand their considerable influence during periods of political challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its positive impact on women's education—for white and black alike— beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.
Your Heritage Will Still Remain
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Author : Michael J. Goleman
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Your Heritage Will Still Remain written by Michael J. Goleman and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with History categories.
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians, black and white, constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict and ending in the late nineteenth century. Michael J. Goleman focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place: as Americans, as Confederates, or as both. In the midst of secession, white Mississippians held firm to an American identity and easily transformed it into a Confederate identity venerating their version of American heritage. After the war, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of transformed American society. Yet they continually faced white supremacist hatred and backlash. During Reconstruction, radical transformations within the state forced all Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians" social identity from 1850 through the end of the century uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend. With personal letters, diaries and journals, newspaper editorials, traveler's accounts, memoirs, reminiscences, and personal histories as its sources, Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the white creation of Mississippi's Lost Cause and into the battle for black social identity. It goes on to show how these cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state even now.
Overheard In Seville 1996
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Santayana Edition
Release Date : 1996-10-15
Overheard In Seville 1996 written by and has been published by Santayana Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
An annual publication, Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society includes scholarly articles on American philosophy, poet, critic, and best-selling novelist George Santayana as well as announcements of publications and meetings pertaining to Santayana Scholarship.
The Diary
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Author : Batsheva Ben-Amos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Diary written by Batsheva Ben-Amos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.