This 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. A Confederate sympathizer, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband and abetted the Rebel cause.
This biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character and national crisis on a woman's life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907) was rai...
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white society. This book brings together nine essays that examine the importance of gender, race, and culture in the New South, offering a rich and varied analysis of the multifaceted role of gender in the lives of black and white southerners in the troubled decades of the late nineteenth and early...
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman ...