Southern Ladies and Suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1...

by Miki Pfeffer

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Southern Ladies and Suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair, Hardcover by Pfeffer, Miki, ISBN 1628461349, ISBN-13 9781628461343, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a drama of personalities and sectionalism at a transitional moment in the history of the nation. These women planted seeds at the Exposition that would have otherwise taken decades to drift southward. This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at a world's fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer recreates the sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans after Civil War and Reconstruction. She focuses on how difficult unity was to achieve, even when diverse women professed a common goal. Such celebrities as Julia Ward Howe and Susan B. Anthony brought national debates on women's issues to the South for the first time, and journalists and ordinary women reacted. At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department became a petri dish where cultures clashed but where women from across the country exchanged views on propriety, jobs, education, and suffrage. Pfeffer

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2014
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781628461343
• Condition: Fine

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