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Author: 
Charles F. Robinson, II
Reviewer: 
Elizabeth Alexander

Alexander on Robinson, 'Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South'

Charles F. Robinson, II. Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2003. xv + 196 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-55728-755-7.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Alexander (Department of History, Texas Wesleyan University) Published on H-SAWH (November, 2004)

An Intimacy Color Line in the Jim Crow South

Author: 
Sally G. McMillen
Reviewer: 
Kirsten E. Wood

Wood on McMillen, 'Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South'

Sally G. McMillen. Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South. Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2002. xii + 215 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-88295-963-4.

Reviewed by Kirsten E. Wood (Department of History, Florida International University) Published on H-SAWH (November, 2004)

Rethinking Southern Women

Author: 
Suzanne Lebsock
Reviewer: 
Lynn M. Hudson

Hudson on Lebsock, 'A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial'

Suzanne Lebsock. A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. 442 pp. $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-393-04201-6.

Reviewed by Lynn M. Hudson (Department of History, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) Published on H-SAWH (September, 2004)

Race, Memory, and a Murder

Author: 
Jacqueline Glass Campbell
Reviewer: 
Victoria Ott

Ott on Campbell, 'When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front'

Jacqueline Glass Campbell. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii + 177 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2809-0.

Reviewed by Victoria Ott (Birmingham-Southern College) Published on H-SAWH (July, 2004)

Gender, Race, and Resistance on the Confederate Home Front

Author: 
Karen L. Cox
Reviewer: 
Jacqueline G. Campbell

Campbell on Cox, 'Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture'

Karen L. Cox. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xvii + 256 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2625-1.

Reviewed by Jacqueline G. Campbell (Department of History, University of Connecticut at Storrs) Published on H-SAWH (May, 2004)

Author: 
Charles K. Wolfe, James E. Akenson, eds.
Reviewer: 
Margaret Nunnelley

Nunnelley on Wolfe and Akenson, 'The Women of Country Music: A Reader'

Charles K. Wolfe, James E. Akenson, eds. The Women of Country Music: A Reader. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. x + 229 pp. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8131-2280-9.

Reviewed by Margaret Nunnelley (History Department, Rice University) Published on H-SAWH (March, 2004)

Gender and Country Music History

Gender and Country Music History

Author: 
Monica Maria Tetzlaff
Reviewer: 
Carole Bucy

Bucy on Tetzlaff, 'Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938'

Monica Maria Tetzlaff. Cultivating a New South: Abbie Holmes Christensen and the Politics of Race and Gender, 1852-1938. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xxi + 340 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-453-4.

Reviewed by Carole Bucy (Department of History, Volunteer State Community College) Published on H-SAWH (January, 2004)

Author: 
Nancy A. Hewitt
Reviewer: 
Alecia P. Long

Long on Hewitt, 'Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s'

Nancy A. Hewitt. Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. ix + 345 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-02682-9; $20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07191-1.

Reviewed by Alecia P. Long (Louisiana State Museum) Published on H-SAWH (December, 2003)

Author: 
Victoria E. Bynum
Reviewer: 
Jean A. Stuntz

Stuntz on Bynum, 'The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War'

Victoria E. Bynum. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xvi + 316 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2636-2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-5467-9.

Reviewed by Jean A. Stuntz (Department of History and Political Science, West Texas A&M University) Published on H-SAWH (August, 2003)

Author: 
Rebecca Grant Sexton, ed.
Reviewer: 
Janet L. Coryell

Coryell on Sexton, 'A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson'

Rebecca Grant Sexton, ed. A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xxxv + 205 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-440-4.

Reviewed by Janet L. Coryell (Department of History, Western Michigan University) Published on H-SAWH (July, 2003)

"Cacoethes Scribendi!" Augusta Jane Evans's "Incurable Itch to Write"

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