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Women, culture, and community : religion and reform in Galveston, 1880-1920
- Title
- Women, culture, and community : religion and reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 / Elizabeth Hayes Turner.
- Author
- Turner, Elizabeth Hayes.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- x, 371 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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 were the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive reforms and the woman suffrage movement. Turner discovers that a majority of them came from particular congregations, but class status had as much to do with reform as did religious motivation. Based on an exhaustive database of membership in community organizations compiled by the author from local archives, Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to students of race relations in the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, and religious history.
- Subjects
- Social action
- Social problems
- Middle class women
- Middle class women > Political activity
- History
- Electronic books
- Texas > Galveston
- Galveston (Tex.) > Social conditions
- Galveston (Tex.) > Race relations
- Galveston (Tex.) > History
- Sociale hervormingen
- Vrouwen
- Burgerij
- Social conditions
- Race relations
- Middle class women > Social conditions
- Action sociale > Texas > Galveston > Histoire
- Problèmes sociaux > Texas > Galveston > Histoire
- Femmes de la classe moyenne > Activité politique > Texas > Galveston
- Femmes de la classe moyenne > Texas > Galveston > Conditions sociales
- Femmes de la classe moyenne > Texas > Galveston > Histoire
- Social action > Texas > Galveston > History
- Social problems > Texas > Galveston > History
- Middle class women > Political activity > Texas > Galveston
- Middle class women > Texas > Galveston > Social conditions
- Middle class women > Texas > Galveston > History
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-360) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Multiple Meanings of Culture, Community, Religion, and Reform -- Pt. 1. Gilded Age Galveston. 1. Disaster Strikes the Island City. 2. Women, Culture, and the Church: Memorials, Cemeteries, and Music. 3. Church Programs: Sunday School, Bible Classes, and Women's Societies. 4. "A Blessing upon Our Labors": Women's Benevolent Societies and Poor Relief. 5. Benevolent Institutions and Their Lady Managers. 6. Women's Clubs -- Pt. 2. Progressive Era Galveston. 7. After the Storm: Women, Public Policy, and Power. 8. "The Interest Has Never Lagged": African American Women and the Black Community. 9. Women Organizing for the Vote. 10. The YWCA and Wage-Earning Women -- Conclusion: Toward Progressive Women's Communities -- App. A. An Essay on Methodology.
- ISBN
- 0195086880
- 9780195086881
- 019511938X
- 9780195119381
- LCCN
- 97013014
- OCLC
- ocm36672093
- 36672093
- SCSB-349610
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library