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First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xx, 257 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; spine sunned with some overlap into rear panel; minor scuffing and bumping at edges; short tear at head of front flap fold. Dark olive cloth. Strong foxing to text block's top edge; light foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Light soiling to front endpapers; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features thirteen essays - "The Experiences and Status of Women in the Chesapeake, 1750-1775" by Lorena S. Walsh; "Caught in the Web of the Big House: Women and Slavery" by Catherine Clinton; "Southern Indians and the Cult of True Womanhood" by Theda Perdue; "'My Children, Gentlemen, Are My Own': Poor Women, the Urban Elite, and the Bonds of Obligation in Antebellum Charleston" by Barbara L. Bellows; "The Perrys of Greenville: A Nineteenth-Century Marriage" by Carol K. Bleser; "The Not-So-Cloistered Academy: Elite Women's Education and Family Feeling in the Old South" by Steven M. Stowe; "Antebellum College Life and the Relations Between Fathers and Sons" by Jon L. Wakelyn; "Higher Education in the South Since the Civil War: Historiographical Issues and Trends" by Thomas G. Dyer; "Black Schooling During Reconstruction" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown; "Women and the Progressive Impulse in Southern Education" by Joseph F. Kett; "'Colored Ladies Also Contributed': Black Women's Activities From Benevolence to Social Welfare, 1866-1896" by Kathleen C. Berkeley; "The Effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Coming of Age of Southern Males, Edgefield County, South Carolina" by Orville Vernon Burton; "Folks Like Us: The Southern Poor White Family, 1865-1935" by J. Wayne Flynt. ISBN 0820307874.