The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South

by Christie Anne Farnham

Book Overview

The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions epitomized by the ideal of the Southern belle. This groundbreaking work provides us with an intimate picture of the entire social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726348
• ISBN13: 9780814726341
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"