Table of Contents

Introduction. The Past as Prologue: Perspectives on Southern Women by Joe P. Dunn; Spheres of Economic Activity among Southern Women in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to the Future by Jacqueline Jones; Stealth in the Political Arsenal of Southern Women: A Retrospective for the Millennium by Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman; Working in the Shadows: Southern Women and Civil Rights by Barbara A. Woods; "Separate but Equal" Case Law and the Higher Education of Women in the Twenty-first Century South by Arny Thompson McCandless; The Changing Character of Farm Life: Rural Southern Women by Melissa Walker; Other Southern Women and the Voices of the Fathers: On Twentieth-Century Writing by Women in the U.S. South by Anne Goodwyn Jones; Southern Women and Religion by Nancy Hardesty; Conclusion by Carol Bleser

About the Author

Melissa Walker is Associate Professor of History at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is the author of All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941. Jeanette R. Dunn is Director of Personnel at Spartenburg Methodist College. Joe P. Dunn is Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of History and Politics at Converse College. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Future South: A Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century.