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Author:

Virginia Meacham Gould, ed.

Reviewer:

Martha Jane Brazy

Brazy on Gould, 'Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black & Female in the Old South'

Virginia Meacham Gould, ed. Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black & Female in the Old South. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1998. liv + 96 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8203-2083-0; $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-1996-4.

Reviewed by Martha Jane Brazy (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Published on H-SAWH (February, 1999)

Author:

Elizabeth R. Varon

Reviewer:

Anne Sarah Rubin

Rubin on Varon, 'We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia'

Elizabeth R. Varon. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. x + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-2390-3.

Reviewed by Anne Sarah Rubin (Department of History, American University) Published on H-SAWH (January, 1999)

Petitioners, Partisans, and Patriots: White Women Embrace Politics in Antebellum Virginia

Author:

Carol Bleser, ed.

Reviewer:

Janey Dudney

Dudney on Bleser, 'Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South'

Carol Bleser, ed. Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xxix + 403 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8203-1727-4.

Reviewed by Janey Dudney (Tennessee Technological University) Published on H-SAWH (August, 1998)

Author:

Christie Anne Farnham, ed.

Reviewer:

Jeanette Keith

Keith on Farnham, 'Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader'

Christie Anne Farnham, ed. Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x + 319 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8147-2654-9.

Reviewed by Jeanette Keith (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-SAWH (August, 1998)

Unequal Sisters of the South

Author:

Carol Berkin

Reviewer:

Mary Carroll Johansen

Johansen on Berkin, 'First Generations: Women in Colonial America'

Carol Berkin. First Generations: Women in Colonial America. New York: Hill & Wang, 1996. xiv + 234 pp. $23.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-4561-7.

Reviewed by Mary Carroll Johansen (Library of Virginia) Published on H-SAWH (October, 1997)

Women's Early America

Author:

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

Reviewer:

Wali Rashash Kharif

Kharif on Gilmore, 'Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920'

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xxii + 384 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-2287-6; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8078-4596-7.

Reviewed by Wali Rashash Kharif (Tennessee Technological University) Published on H-SAWH (June, 1997)

Celebrating 25 Years Online

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Brazy on Gould, 'Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black & Female in the Old South'

Rubin on Varon, 'We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia'

Dudney on Bleser, 'Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South'

Keith on Farnham, 'Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader'

Johansen on Berkin, 'First Generations: Women in Colonial America'

Kharif on Gilmore, 'Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920'

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