Julia Cherry Spruill. Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. xviii + 426 pp. $14.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-393-31758-9.
Reviewed by Julie Richter (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Published on H-SAWH (March, 1999)
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)
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
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)
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
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
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)
