Bøger af Elna C. Green

Using Richmond as a case study, the author looks at issues and trends related to two centuries of relief for the needy and dependent in the urban south, linking her findings to the larger narrative of welfare history in the United States.

Based on biographies of over 800 women, this study of the suffrage and the anti-suffrage movements in Southern America, highlights the effects that such factors as class, race and gender had in inspiring the region's women to work for or against their own enfranchisement.