Books by Joan Marie Johnson

From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges. This title looks at how such educations, influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in social reforms of the Progressive Era South.

Looks at how educations - in the North, at some of the country's best schools - influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in woman suffrage and other social reforms of the Progressive Era South. This book explores why students sought a classical, liberal arts education.