Christie Anne Farnham: 1 book
The Education of the Southern Belle
Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1994
The American South before the Civil War was the site of an unprecedented social experiment in women's education. The South offered women an education explicitly designed to be equivalent to that of men, while maintaining and nurturing the gender conventions epitomized by the ideal of the Southern...
