Reviews
"Each of these essays contributes considerably to the understanding of the ways in which southern U.S. women's lives have changed and have been changed by their communities and institutions."
--The North Carolina Historical Review
"Without exception, Clayton and Salmond's selections are superbly researched and well-written."
"Nothing in the book is more valuable than Anne Firor Scott's introduction, in which she lists changes in the field of women's history since she began engaging in its practice, ranging from its topics and sources to the practitioners themselves."
--wellesley.edu/Women's Review of Books
"Informed by the best recent scholarship and written in an engaging style, this is a fine introductory text for students of labor, civil rights, or modern US political history."
--Choice
"Without exception, Clayton and Salmond's selections are superbly researched and well written, a rarity in the world of essay collections, routinely uneven in quality."
--The Southern Register
"These essays prove the diversity of Southern women as well as their history."
--The Journal of American History
"A fine sampling of some of the current work on southern women's history."
--American Historical Review
"An exceptional addition to the flood of scholarly work that ultimately ties back to that early trickle of writing from five pioneer social historians, often treated as marginal workers in a field most male historians simply did not recognize."
--H-Net