| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change. Ed. by Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. x, 269 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-8262-1617-X.)
The ten essays in this book represent the best of the papers presented at the 2003 Southern Conference on Women's History. The volume, the seventh in the Southern Women series, examines how southern women—black and white; elite, working class, or poor—created and confronted change by reinterpreting socially acceptable gender roles to fit the needs of their families and communities or by creating new spaces for themselves in the shifting social, economic, and political framework of southern life.	1
The book begins with Phillip Hamilton's insightful essay on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Virginia gentry women. As the men in their lives assumed larger roles in the politics of the new republic, these women became "true partners to their husbands (albeit inferior partners), who contributed to the household" and advised their husbands on family affairs (p. 7). They interpreted the ideal of republican womanhood to include participation in, rather than isolation from, the daily operations of their households.	. . .

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