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Author: Joan Marie Johnson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.379kg
ISBN: 9780820334684
ISBN 10: 0820334685
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 April 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[Joan M.] Johnson's reliance on primary sources and scrupulous use of selected secondary sources make Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges a real contribution to southern women's history at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When Johnson concentrates on the special influences of southern life, the result is especially fascinating. --North Carolina Historical Review Johnson's engaging portrait of an influential group of women significantly deepens our insight into the female college experience and the new models of activist womanhood that helped shape the Progressive Era South. --Andrea Hamilton Journal of American History Joan Johnson's new book, based on prodigious research, tells a fascinating story about the influence of a northern education on this privileged group of southern women who in turn had a significant influence on southern society. It is a very welcome addition to what we know about women in the New South and also adds a valuable new dimension to the story of regional reconciliation after the Civil War. --Marjorie J. Spruill author of New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States Johnson does for the Seven Sisters what historian Anne Firor Scott first did for Troy Female Seminary, showing how graduates 'disseminated the feminist values they learned there.' This superbly researched work will be a valuable addition to the historiography on women's higher education, the Progressive Era, and the region. --Amy Thompson McCandless author of The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South
Joan Johnson's new book, based on prodigious research, tells a fascinating story about the influence of a northern education on this privileged group of southern women who in turn had a significant influence on southern society. It is a very welcome addition to what we know about women in the New South and also adds a valuable new dimension to the story of regional reconciliation after the Civil War. --Marjorie J. Spruill, author of New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States
[Joan M.] Johnson's reliance on primary sources and scrupulous use of selected secondary sources make Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges a real contribution to southern women's history at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When Johnson concentrates on the special influences of southern life, the result is especially fascinating. --North Carolina Historical Review Joan Johnson's new book, based on prodigious research, tells a fascinating story about the influence of a northern education on this privileged group of southern women who in turn had a significant influence on southern society. It is a very welcome addition to what we know about women in the New South and also adds a valuable new dimension to the story of regional reconciliation after the Civil War. --Marjorie J. Spruill author of New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States Johnson's engaging portrait of an influential group of women significantly deepens our insight into the female college experience and the new models of activist womanhood that helped shape the Progressive Era South. --Andrea Hamilton Journal of American History Johnson does for the Seven Sisters what historian Anne Firor Scott first did for Troy Female Seminary, showing how graduates 'disseminated the feminist values they learned there.' This superbly researched work will be a valuable addition to the historiography on women's higher education, the Progressive Era, and the region. --Amy Thompson McCandless author of The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South
Author Information
Joan Marie Johnson, visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, is the editor of Southern Women at Vassar: The Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916.
