Contributor
Hobbs, Catherine.
Imprint:Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Descriptionxv, 343 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction: Cultures and practices of U.S. women's literacy / Catherine Hobbs -- PART I: CULTURES AND CONTEXTS OF LITERACY: Conduct books for women, 1830-1860: a rationale for women's conduct and domestic role in America / Jane E. Rose -- "In an atmosphere of peril": college women and their writing / Vickie Ricks -- "The voice, pen and influence of our women are abroad in the land": women and the Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1899 / Sandra D. Harmon -- "Let us strive earnestly to value education aright": Cherokee female seminarians as leaders of a changing culture / Devon A. Mihesuah -- His religion and hers in 19th-century hymnody / June Hadden Hobbs -- Writing in circles: Harriet Beecher Stowe, the semi-colon club, and the construction of women's authorship / Nicole Tonkovich -- PART II: PRACTICES AND "VOICES" OF LITERACY: Literacy as a tool for social action among 19th-century African American women / Shirley Wilson Logan -- Mothers, daughters, diaries: literacy, relationship, and cultural context / Judy Nolte Temple, Suzanne L. Bunkers -- Women and the Western military frontier: Elizabeth Bacon Custer / Maryan Wherry -- Cultural models of womanhood and female education: practices of colonization and resistance / P. Joy Rouse -- Silks, Congress gaiters, and rhetoric: a Butler University graduate of 1860 tells her story / Heidemarie Z. Weidner -- Radcliffe responses to Harvard rhetoric: "An absurdly stiff way of thinking" / Sue Carter Simmons -- Postscripts: "A toast to Jerusha Jane Jones" -- "Is John smarter than I?" byu Jerusha Jane Jones (Rockford Seminary Magazine, 1875) -- Afterword: Revealing the ties that bind? / Joann Campbell.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.
