Work, family, and faith : rural southern women in the twentieth century / edited with an introduction by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharpless.

Contributor Walker, Melissa, 1962-

Imprint:Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Descriptionxi, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker -- "Work was my pleasure" : an oral history of Nellie Stancil Langley / Lu Ann Jones -- "Pretty near every woman done a man's work" : women and field work in the rural South / Rebecca Sharpless and Melissa Walker -- "A responsibility on women that cannot be delegated to father, husband, or son" : farm women and cooperation in the tobacco South / Evan P. Bennett -- "Seizing the opportunity" : home demonstration curb markets in Virginia / Ann E. McCleary -- Revitalizing southern homes : rural women, the professionalization of home demonstration work, and the limits of reform, 1917-1945 / Lynne Rieff -- "You got us all a-pullin' together" : southern Methodist deaconesses in the rural South, 1922-1940 / Lois E. Myers -- "Shepherdess of the hills" : the Salvation Army mountain ministry of Cecil Brown / Connie Park Rice -- Goin' north : the African American women of Sloss Quarters / Karen R. Utz -- "It takes a special kind of woman to work up there" : race, gender, and the impact of the apparel industry on southern Alabama, 1937-2001 / Michelle Haberland.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"Collection of essays capturing the transformation of the American South from agrarian to industrial/commercial over the course of the twentieth century from the perspective of women struggling against poverty by relying on tradition and inner strength"--Provided by publisher.

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