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Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890

By: LeeAnn Whites

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Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890

By: LeeAnn Whites

Gender is the last vantage point from which the Civil War has yet to be examined in-depth, says LeeAnn Whites. Gender concepts and constructions, Whites says, deeply influenced the beliefs underpinning both the Confederacy and its vestiges to which white southerners clung for decades after the Confederacy's defeat. Whites's arguments and observations, which center on the effects of the conflict on the South's gender hierarchy, will challenge our understanding of the war and our acceptance of its historiography. The ordering principle of gender roles and relations in the antebellum South, says Whites, was a form of privileged white male identity against which others in that society were measured and accorded worth and meaning--women, wives, children, and slaves. Over the course of the Civil War the power of these men to so arbitrarily construct their world all but vanished, owing to a succession of hardships that culminated in defeat and the end of slavery. At the same time, Confederate women were steadily--and ambivalently--empowered. Drawn out of their domestic sphere, these women labored and sacrificed to prop up an apparently hollow notion of essential manliness that rested in part on an assumption of female docility and weakness. Whites focuses on Augusta, Georgia, to follow these events as they were played out in the lives of actual men and women. An antebellum cotton trading center, Augusta was central to the Confederacy's supply network and later became an exemplary New South manufacturing city. Drawing on primary sources from private family papers to census data, Whites traces the interplay of power and subordination, self-interest and loyalty, as she discusses topics related to the gender crisis in Augusta, including female kin networks, women's volunteer organizations, class and race divisions, emancipation, Sherman's invasion of Georgia, veteran aid societies, rural migration to cities, and the postwar employment of white women and children in industry. Whites concludes with an account of how elite white Augustans "reconstructed" themselves in the postwar years. By memorializing their dead and mythologizing their history in a way that presented the war as a valiant defense of antebellum domesticity, these Augustans sought to restore a patriarchy--however attenuated--that would deflect the class strains of industrial development while maintaining what it could of the old Southern gender and racial order. Inherent in this effort, as during the war, was an unspoken admission by the white men of Augusta of their dependency upon white women. A pioneering volume in Civil War history, this important study opens new debates and avenues of inquiry in culture and gender studies.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820322091

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9780820322094

Gender Matters

Race, Class and Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century South

By: L. Whites

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Gender Matters

Race, Class and Sexuality in the Nineteenth-Century South

By: L. Whites

What role did gender play in the secession crisis? In the loyalty of the civilian population during the Civil War? In the formation of the Ku Klux Klan? In class organization and conflict in the postwar textile industry? Why was the first woman senator from the U.S. South? What role did sexuality and gender play in the explosion of racial violence in the late nineteenth century? These questions and many others concerning the critical role that gender played in the major events of the nineteenth-century South and the nation more generally are addressed in this collection of essays.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1403963126

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9781403963123

The Culture of Property

Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

By: LeeAnn Lands

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The Culture of Property

Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

By: LeeAnn Lands

This history of the idea of “neighborhood” in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. Using Atlanta as a lens to view the wider nation, LeeAnn Lands shows how assumptions about race and class have coalesced with attitudes toward residential landscape aesthetics and home ownership to shape public policies that promote and protect white privilege. Lands studies the diffusion of property ideologies on two separate but related levels: within academic, professional, and bureaucratic circles and within circles comprising civic elites and rank-and-file residents. By the 1920s, following the establishment of park neighborhoods such as Druid Hills and Ansley Park, white home owners approached housing and neighborhoods with a particular collection of desires and sensibilities: architectural and landscape continuity, a narrow range of housing values, orderliness, and separation from undesirable land uses—and undesirable people. By the 1950s, these desires and sensibilities had been codified in federal, state, and local standards, practices, and laws. Today, Lands argues, far more is at stake than issues of access to particular neighborhoods, because housing location is tied to the allocation of a broad range of resources, including school funding, infrastructure, and law enforcement. Long after racial segregation has been outlawed, white privilege remains embedded in our culture of home ownership.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820342238

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Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890

By: LeeAnn Whites

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Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890

By: LeeAnn Whites

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Maintaining Segregation

Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955

By: LeeAnn G. Reynolds

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Maintaining Segregation

Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955

By: LeeAnn G. Reynolds

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2007.

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LSU Press

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0807165654

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9780807165652

Poor Atlanta

Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development

By: LeeAnn B. Lands

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Poor Atlanta

Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development

By: LeeAnn B. Lands

Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people’s campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta’s importance as a business and transportation hub. As urban leaders promoted Forward Atlanta, a program to, in Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.’s words, “sell the city like a product,” poor families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too, should improve. While not always operating within public awareness, antipoverty campaigns among the poor presented a regular and sometimes strident critique of inequality and Atlanta’s uneven urban development. With Poor Atlanta, LeeAnn B. Lands demonstrates that, while eclipsed by the Black freedom movement, antipoverty organizing (including direct action campaigns, legal actions, lobbying, and other forms of activism) occurred with regularity from 1964 through 1976. Her analysis is one of the few citywide studies of antipoverty organizing in late twentieth-century America.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820363278

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9780820363271

Understanding Eating Disorders

Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa And Obesity

By: LeeAnn Alexander Mott,Barry D. Lumsden

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Understanding Eating Disorders

Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa And Obesity

By: LeeAnn Alexander Mott,Barry D. Lumsden

First published in 1994. As the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity sometimes caused by compulsive eating has risen, so has research and literature in the field. Presenting current knowledge of these eating disorders - the most common types found in adolescents and adults - this book addresses issues relevant to all.; Examining the pertinent history, aetiology, psychotherapy, and sociology, the contributors define these eating disorders and discuss issues of recovery and methods of treatment.; They also consider the problem as it exists in both male and females in this multicultural society. The resulting volume is divided into four parts: the first gives an overview in general, and the next three focus individually on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity respectively.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317822676

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9781317822677

The Everything Glycemic Index Cookbook

By: LeeAnn Weintraub Smith

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The Everything Glycemic Index Cookbook

By: LeeAnn Weintraub Smith

Switching to a low-GI diet is the key to losing weight--and keeping it off, especially for those suffering from obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. With this new edition of the classic cookbook, registered dietician LeeAnn Smith shows you how to prepare low-GI meals that are as tasty as they are healthy, including: Tomato and Feta Frittata Asian Sesame Lettuce Wraps Barley Risotto with Mushroom and Thyme Ginger Beef and Napa Cabbage Braised Chicken with White Beans and Kale Dark Chocolate–Dipped Macaroons With a foreword by a weight-loss specialist at the UCLA School of Medicine, this is the only cookbook you need to master the art and science of preparing and enjoying good food--that's good for you!

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Simon and Schuster

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1440505853

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9781440505850

Betty Crocker's Chinese Cookbook

By: Leeann Chin

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Betty Crocker's Chinese Cookbook

By: Leeann Chin

Now you can prepare a full Chinese meal at home.

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Random House (NY)

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0394518810

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9780394518817

The Culture of Property

Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

By: LeeAnn Lands

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Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

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University of Georgia Press

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Maintaining Segregation

Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955

By: LeeAnn G. Reynolds

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Maintaining Segregation

Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955

By: LeeAnn G. Reynolds

In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned about segregation in their homes, schools, and churches. As public lynchings and other displays of racial violence declined in the 1920s, a culture of silence developed around segregation, serving to forestall, absorb, and deflect individual challenges to the racial hierarchy. The cumulative effect of the racial instruction southern children received, prior to highly publicized news such as the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Montgomery bus boycott, perpetuated segregation by discouraging discussion or critical examination. As the system of segregation evolved throughout the early twentieth century, generations of southerners came of age having little or no knowledge of life without institutionalized segregation. Reynolds examines the motives and approaches of white and black parents to racial instruction in the home and how their methods reinforced the status quo. Whereas white families sought to preserve the legal system of segregation and their place within it, black families faced the more complicated task of ensuring the safety of their children in a racist society without sacrificing their sense of self-worth. Schools and churches functioned as secondary sites for racial conditioning, and Reynolds traces the ways in which these institutions alternately challenged and encouraged the marginalization of black Americans both within society and the historical narrative. In order for subsequent generations to imagine and embrace the sort of racial equality championed by the civil rights movement, they had to overcome preconceived notions of race instilled since childhood. Ultimately, Reynolds’s work reveals that the social change that occurred due to the civil rights movement can only be fully understood within the context of the segregation imposed upon children by southern institutions throughout much of the early twentieth century.

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0807165662

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Book's by LeeAnn Whites

Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Gender Matters

Gender Matters

The Culture of Property

The Culture of Property

Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Civil War as a Crisis in Gender

Maintaining Segregation

Maintaining Segregation

Poor Atlanta

Poor Atlanta

Understanding Eating Disorders

Understanding Eating Disorders

The Everything Glycemic Index Cookbook

The Everything Glycemic Index Cookbook

Betty Crocker's Chinese Cookbook

Betty Crocker's Chinese Cookbook

The Culture of Property

The Culture of Property

Maintaining Segregation

Maintaining Segregation

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