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Women

by Terrell A. Crow, 2006
Additional research provided by Ansley Herring Wegner.

See also: American Association of University Women; Equal Rights Amendment; League of Women Voters; North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association; Women Suffrage.

Part i: Introduction; Part ii: Women's Roles in Precolonial and Colonial North Carolina; Part iii: Women in the Revolutionary Era and Early Statehood; Part iv: Life in Antebellum North Carolina; Part v: Secession and Civil War; Part vi: Women Help Shape the New South; Part vii: Women Earn the Right to Vote; Part viii: Activism and the Expansion of Women's Opportunities and Public Influence; Part ix: References

Part IX: References

Albert Coates, By Her Own Bootstraps: A Saga of Women in North Carolina (1975).

Donald G. Mathews and Jane S. De Hart, Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation (1990).

Kathryn L. Nasstrom, "'More Was Expected of Us': The North Carolina League of Women Voters and the Feminist Movement in the 1920's," NCHR 68 (July 1991).

North Carolina Council for Women, Status of Women in North Carolina (1994).

Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson, North Carolina Women: Making History (1999).

Additional Resources:

Silkenat, David. “‘In Good Hands, in a Safe Place’: Female Academies in Confederate North Carolina.” The North Carolina Historical Review 88, no. 1 (2011): 40–71. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23523762.

Vincent, Tom. “‘Evidence of Womans Loyalty, Perseverance, and Fidelity’: Confederate Soldiers’ Monuments in North Carolina, 1865-1914.” The North Carolina Historical Review 83, no. 1 (2006): 61–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23522933.

Subjects: 
Women
Authors: 
Crow, Terrell A.
From: 
Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.

1 January 2006 | Crow, Terrell A.