CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Barbara Ellen Smith
I Engendering History
1 The Social Relations of Southern Women
Barbara Ellen Smith
2 Transgressions in Race and Place: The Ubiquitous Native Grandmother in America's Cultural Memory
Darlene Wilson and Patricia D. Beaver
3 "A Good Ol' Woman": Relations of Race and Gender in an Indian Community
Patricia B. Lerch
II Making a Living
4 Race, Class, and Intimacy in Southern Households: Relationships Between Black Domestic Workers and White Employers
Mahnaz Kousha
5 Women, Restructuring, and Textiles: The Increasing Complexity of Subordination and Struggle in a Southern Community
Cynthia D. Anderson and Michael D. Schulman
6 A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving the Socioeconomic Fabric of Women's Lives
Ann M. Oberhauser and Anne-Marie Turnage
III Sustaining Communities
7 Finding a Voice: Latinas in the South
Loida C. Velazquez
8 Doing Good While Doing Well: Professional Black Women in the Mississippi Delta
Cynthia M. Duncan, Margaret M. Walsh, and Gemma Beckley
9 Holding Hands: An American Struggle for Community
Carol Stack
10 Women and Revolutionary Relations: Community-Building in Appalachia
Monica Kelly Appleby
IV Changing Possibilities in the Global South
11 Gender, Race, and Place: Confounding Labor Activism in Central Appalachia
Sally Ward Maggard
12 Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers Explore the New
International Division of Labor
Fran Ansley and Susan Williams
13 What's Sex Got to Do with It, Y'All?
Mab Segrest
About the Contributors
Index
