Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories (Women's Diaries & Letters of the South) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570035245 ISBN 13: 9781570035241

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume tells the stories of women born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, who grew up on farms, in labour camps and in remote towns during an era when the region's agricultural system changed dramatically.

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Review

All of the stories in Country Women Cope with Hard Times are wonderful windows to the past.
Charleston (S.C.) Post & Courier

This book chronicles a history that has until now often been confined to the oral traditions of family life, passed from grandmother to child, escaping the notice of outsiders.
Women's Review of Books

This book is a goldmine of information about country women who have left few or no written records, and were otherwise socially marginalized, and it stands as a permanent record of a past way of life.
Rural History

In vivid, compelling accounts, women tell how they cared for their families, sought educational opportunities for their children, celebrated holidays and assisted neighbors through mutual aid networks. . . . A wonderful collection for historians and scholars interested in what southern rural women have to say about their lives in the early twentieth century.
Labor History

Through rare glimpses into the interior lives of country women, the book reminds readers that women were experiencing monumental historical developments alongside equally monumental personal challenges.
North Carolina Historical Review

About the Author

Melissa Walker is the George Dean Johnson Jr. Professor of History at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she has been the recipient of the O'Herron Award for Faculty Excellence and the Kathryne Amelia Brown Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 2007 she was named the Carnegie Foundation for Teaching/CASE South Carolina Professor of the year. President of the Agricultural History Society and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH), Walker is also the author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories and All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941, winner of the SAWH Willie Lee Rose Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1570035245
• ISBN 13: 9781570035241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Walker Melissa, Bleser Carol