Laura Baines
Southern Women History Comps list
Ante-Bellum Southern Gender
Brent, Linda. Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl. San Diego: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Publishers, 1973.
Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs
Bynum, Unruly Women
Campbell, Jacqueline. When Sherman Marched North from the Seas: Resistance of the
Confederate Home Front
Clinton, Catherine and Nina Silber, eds. Divided House: Gender and the Civil War. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Clinton, Catherine ed. Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
Clinton, Catherine. Tara Revisited: Women, War and the Plantation Legend. New York:
Abbeville Publishers,1995.
Clinton, Catherine. The Planation Mistress
Delfino, Susanna & Michele Gillespie eds. Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of
the Old South
Edwards, Laura. Scarlett Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War
Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Faust, Drew. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American
Civil War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household
Hodes, Martha. White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the 19th Century South. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: A Signet Classic, 2000
Lebsock, Suzanne. The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern
Town, 1784-1860
Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Lewis, The Pursuit of Happiness
Malone, Ann Patton. Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household structure in NinetiethCentury Louisianna
McCurry, Masters of Small Words
McLaurin, Melton. Celia a Slave. New York: Avon, 1993
Rable, George. Civil War: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism
Roberts, Giselle. The Confederate Belle. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003.
Rothman, Joshua. Notorious in the Neighborhood. Chapel Hill: The University of North
Carolina Press, 2003.
Scott, Southern Lady
Somerville, Siobhan. Queering the Color Line. Durhman: Duke University Press, 2000.
Stevenson, Brenda. Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South
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White, Deborah. Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female slaves in the Plantation South. New York:
W.W. Norton, 1999.
Wyatt-Brown, Bertam, Southern Honor
Reconstruction Gender
Bederman, Manliness and Civilization
Edwards, Laura. Gender Strife and Confusion, the political culture of Reconstruction
Faulkner, Carol. Women’s radical reconstruction: the freedmen’s aid movement.
Foner,Eric. Reconstruction. New York: Perennial, 1989
Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow.
Higginbotham, Evelyn. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in Black Baptist
Church, 1880-1920.
Silber The Romance of Reunion
Schwalm, Leslie. A Hard Fight for We: Women’s transition from Slavery to freedom in
South Carolina.
Religion
Friedman, The Enclosed Garden
Heyrman, Southern Cross
Lyerly, Methodism and the Southern Mind
Mathews, Religion in the Old South
Non-South
Faragher, Sugar Creek
Jensen, Loosening the Bonds
Osterud, Bonds of Community
Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class
Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale
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