Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

by Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Book Overview

Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle- and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually transforming the cultural and political landscape of their community? Using Galveston as a case study, Elizabeth Hayes Turner asks who where the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive reforms and the women sufferage movement. Turner...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019511938X
• ISBN13: 9780195119381
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"