A collection of essays that offers insights into various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminates the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

Marjorie Julian Spruill (Editor)
>Valinda W. Littlefield (Editor)
>Joan Marie Johnson (Editor)
JOAN MARIE JOHNSON is a lecturer in women's history and southern history at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the cofounder and codirector of the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender at the Newberry Library in Chicago and is the author of Southern Ladies, New Women.