Changing history : Virginia women through four centuries / Cynthia A. Kierner, Jennifer R. Loux, Megan Taylor Shockley.
2013
305.4209755 K47c 2013
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Title
Changing history : Virginia women through four centuries / Cynthia A. Kierner, Jennifer R. Loux, Megan Taylor Shockley.
Author
ISBN
9780884902126 (alk. paper)
0884902129 (alk. paper)
0884902129 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Richmond : Library of Virginia, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 458 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number
305.4209755 K47c 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)812531190
(OCoLC)812531190
(OCoLC)812531190
Summary
"For four centuries, Virginia women have made history that is both important and inspiring. As entrepreneurs and laborers, wives and mothers, educators and reformers, women--both famous and lesser-known--have influenced the course of history in the Old Dominion. Changing History: Virginia Women through Four Centuries begins with the region's Native American peoples before Jamestown and ends with a twenty-first century profoundly changed by second-wave feminism. Generously illustrated, Changing History is based on recent scholarly work as well as research in original records. The engaging narrative reveals a history of Virginia women whose rights and choices have increased over time: enslaved women became free; wives became property-owners; women of all races attained greater access to education, suffrage, and other basic civil rights. Progress has not always been steady and improvements have varied by class, race, and region. Virginia's women have created an evocative legacy. Changing History tells their stories."--book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
"Skillfull in anie country worke" : red, white, and black in colonial Virginia
"We cannot be tame spectators" : revolutionary times
"The uncertainty of our prospects" : antebellum perils and possibilities
"A constant state of hopes and fears" : women in the secession crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
"Lifting as we climb" : the progressive era
"Our future freedom rests in how willing we are to face realities" : women, citizenship, and change, 1930s-1950s
"The real issue
is one of power" : women, civil rights, and feminism in the 1950s and beyond.
"We cannot be tame spectators" : revolutionary times
"The uncertainty of our prospects" : antebellum perils and possibilities
"A constant state of hopes and fears" : women in the secession crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
"Lifting as we climb" : the progressive era
"Our future freedom rests in how willing we are to face realities" : women, citizenship, and change, 1930s-1950s
"The real issue
is one of power" : women, civil rights, and feminism in the 1950s and beyond.
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