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The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South

The Education of the Southern Belle: Higher Education and Student Socialization in the Antebellum South

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General EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0814726151
ISBN13: 9780814726150
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 1994
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.27
Language: English

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 belle. This groundbreaking work provides us with an intimate picture of the entire social experience of antebellum women's colleges and seminaries in the South, analyzing the impact of these colleges upon the cultural construction of femininity among white Southern women, and their legacy for higher education.

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