The sparsity of research and publications on Southern women : Definitional complexities, methodological problems, and other impediments / Caroline Matheny Dillman -- A myth of the Southern lady : Antebellum proslavery rhetoric and the proper place of women / Virginia Kent Anderson Leslie -- "My ol' black mammy" in American historigraphy / Patricia Morton -- Toward an understanding of the quadroom society of New Orleans, 1780-1860 / Mary Gehman -- Lorraine Hansberry as visionary : black and white antebellum Southern women in concert / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Growing up female, white, and Southern in the 1850s and 1860s / Kathryn Palumbo -- The Civil War and black women in the Sea Islands / Carolyn E. Wedin -- Heirs of the Southern progressive tradition : Women in Southern legislatures in the 1920s / Joanne V. Hawks and Mary Carolyn Ellis -- The black domestic in the south : Her legacy as mother and mother surrogate / Susan Tucker -- Socialization for change : The cultural heritage of the white Southern woman / Sarah Brabant -- The code of the new Southern Bell : Generating typifications to structure social interaction / John Lynxwiler and Michele Wilson -- Ladies : South by Northwest / Jacqueline Boles, Maxine P. Atkinson -- Magnolias and microchips : Regional subcultural constructions of femininity / Susan Middleton Keirn -- And the girls became women : Aspirations and expectations versus attainments of low-income black and white Southern females / William F. Kenkel and Sarah M. Shoffer -- Southern women and textile work : Job satisfaction / Jan K. Bryant -- Stronger than love : Louisiana's sugar cane women / Julia Burkart -- Women and violence : The intersection of two components of southern ideology / Becky L. Glass -- Southern white women business owners : Variations on scripts / Elaine Levin and Lyn Thaxton -- Southern women writing about Southern women : Jill McCorkle, Lisa Alther, Gail Godwin, Ellen Gilchrist, and Lee Smith / Donna Kelleher Darden.