For Our Mutual Benefit : The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920

Suggested Readings

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  • Adie, Kate. The Legacy of Women in World War One. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.
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  • Atlanta Woman's Club. Twenty-Seventh Year Book of the Atlanta Woman's Club: Atlanta, Georgia, 1921-1922. Edited by Mrs. Norman Sharp. Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta Woman's Club, 1922.
  • Atlanta Woman's Club. Twenty-Third Year Book of the Atlanta Woman's Club: Atlanta, Georgia, 1917-1918. Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta Woman's Club, 1918.
  • Barrow, David C. Co-education at the University; an Address before the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs, at the twenty-sixth annual convention. Athens, Ga: University of Georgia, 1922.
  • Blair, Karen J. The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980.
  • _______. The History of American Women's Voluntary Organizations, 1810-1960. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1989.
  • Bolt, Christine. The Women's Movement in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.
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  • Brooks, Robert Preston. "Sanitary Conditions Among the Negroes of Athens, Georgia," Phelps-Stokes Fellowship Studies, No. 4, in the Bulletin of the University of Georgia, vol. XVIII, no. 7,. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia, 1918.
  • Cardoza-Oquendo, Juan. "Lugenia Burns Hope (1871-1947)" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2010. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lugenia-burns-hope-1871-1947 [March 5, 2020]
  • Case, Sarah H. "Lucy Cobb Institute" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. [online resource], 2004. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/lucy-cobb-institute [March 5, 2020]
  • Casdorph, Paul D. Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1981.
  • Cash, Flora Loreet Barnett. African American Women and Social Action: The Clubwomen and Volunteerism for Jim Crow to the New Deal, 1896-1936. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
  • Catron-Sullivan, Staci and Susan Neill. Women in Atlanta. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
  • Chaddock, Katherine Reynolds, Susan L. Schramm. A Separate Sisterhood: Women Who Shaped Southern Education in the Progressive Era. New York: Peter Land, 2002.
  • Croly, Jane Cunningham. The History of the Woman's Club Movement in America. New York: H.G. Allen, 1898.
  • Doster, Gary. Postcard History of Athens, Georgia. Athens, Ga.: Athens Historical Society, 2002.
  • Dyer, Thomas G. The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
  • Eltzroth, E. Lee. "Woman Suffrage" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2002. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/woman-suffrage [March 5, 2020]
  • Ettling, John. The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.
  • Gardner, Sarah E. "Helen Dortch Longstreet (1863-1962)" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2003. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/helen-dortch-longstreet-1863-1962 [March 5, 2020]
  • Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs. Directory. Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, 1915.
  • Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs. Yearbook. Atlanta, Ga.: Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, 1897[?]-.
  • Granger, Mrs. A. O. "The Effect of Club Work in the South." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 28 (September 1906): 50-58.
  • _______. "The Work of the General Federation of Women's Clubs against Child Labor." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 25 (May 1905): 102-107.
  • Grantham, Dewey. "The Contours of Southern Progressivism." American Historical Review 86 (October 1981): 1035-1059.
  • _______. Southern Progressivism: The Reconciliation of Progress and Tradition. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2016.
  • _______. The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
  • Green, Elna C. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
  • Hämmerle, Christa, Oswal Überegger, and Birgitta Bader-Zaar. Gender and the First World War. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  • Holliman, Irene V. “Julia Flisch (1861-1941)” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2007. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/julia-flisch-1861-1941 [February 7, 2020].
  • Houde, Mary Jean. Reaching Out: A Story of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Chicago: Mobium Press, 1989.
  • Hudson, Paul Stephen. "Moina Belle Michael (1869-1944)" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2018. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/moina-belle-michael-1869-1944 [March 5, 2020]
  • Lerner, Gerda. "Early Community Work of Black Club Women." Journal of Negro History 52 (April 1974): 158-167.
  • Link, William A. The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
  • ______. "Privies, Progressivism, and Public Schools: Health Reform and Education in the Rural South, 1909-1920." Journal of Southern History 54 (November 1988): 623-642.
  • ______. The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths: and Other Documents of Social Reform in the Progressive Era South. Boston, Mass.: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
  • Long, Francis Taylor. "The Negroes of Clarke County, Georgia, During the Great War," Phelps-Stokes Fellowship Studies, No. 5. in the Bulletin of the University of Georgia, vol. XIX, no. 8, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia, 1919.
  • Martin, Joseph Oscar. The Early Life Story of Miss Celeste Parrish, Noted Georgia Educator. Self-published, Atlanta,1925.
  • Martin, Theodora Penny. The Sound of Our Own Voices: Women's Study Clubs 1860- 1910. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1987.
  • McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie, "Caretakers of Southern Civilization: Georgia Women and the Anti-Suffrage Campaign, 1914-1920." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (winter 1998): 801-828.
  • Murphy, Edgar Gardner. Problems of the Present South: A Discussion of Certain of the Educational, Industrial, and Political Issues in the Southern States. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
  • Montgomery, Rebecca S. Celeste Parrish and Educational Reform in the Progressive-era South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
  • Moreland, Molly. “Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973)” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2005. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/jeannette-rankin-1880-1973 [February 7, 2020].
  • Parker, Alison M. Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
  • Parker, David B. “Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930)” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2003. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/rebecca-latimer-felton-1835-1930 [February 7, 2020].
  • Roth, Darlene Rebecca. Matronage: Patterns in Women's Organizations, Atlanta, Georgia, 1890-1940, Scholarship in Women's History, vol. 9. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1994.
  • Rowe, H. J. History of Athens and Clarke County. Greenville, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 2000.
  • Savitt, Todd L. and James Harvey Young. Diseases and Distinctiveness in the American South. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1988.
  • Schneider, Franz. A Survey of the Public Health Situation: Atlanta, Georgia. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1913.
  • Scott, Ann Firor. Making the Invisible Woman Visible. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
  • _______. Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
  • _______. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
  • Shaw, Stephanie. "Black Club Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women." Journal of Women's History 3 (Fall 1991): 10-25.
  • Sheffer, Marguerite B. Memorabilia of the Athens Woman's Club: Its Projects and Interests. Athens, Ga.: Athens Woman's Club, 1982.
  • Shellman, Carey O. "Nellie Peters Black" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2004. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/nellie-peters-black-1851-1919 [March 5, 2020]
  • Sherman, Mrs. John Dickinson. "The Women's Clubs in the Middle Western States," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 28 (September, 1906): 227-247.
  • Sims, Anastasia. The Power of Femininity in the New South: Women's Organizations and Politics in North Carolina, 1880-1930. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
  • Smith, Susan Lynn. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950. Philadelphia, Penn.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
  • Spalding, Phinizy, ed. and comp. Higher Education for Women in the South: A History of Lucy Cobb Institute, 1858-1994. Athens, Ga.: Georgia Southern Press, 1994.
  • Spruill, Marjorie Julian. Votes For Women!: the Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.
  • Steinschneider, Janice C. An Improved Woman: The Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, 1895-1920, Scholarship in Women's history, vol. 10. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Publishing, 1994.
  • Taylor, Lloyd C. The Medical Profession and Social Reform, 1885-1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974.
  • Thomas, Frances Taliaferro. A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
  • Townsend, Sara Bertha. "The Admission of Women to the University of Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 43 (June 1959): 156-169.
  • Vacca, Carolyn Summers. A Reform Against Nature: Woman Suffrage and the Rethinking of American Citizenship, 1840-1920. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
  • Ward, May Allen. "The Influence of Women's Clubs in New England and in the Middle- Eastern States." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 28 (September 1906): 7-28.
  • Womack, Carlisle E. "Selena Sloan Butler (ca. 1872-1964)" in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2005. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/selena-sloan-butler-ca-1872-1964 [March 5, 2020]
  • Wood, Mary I. The History of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. New York: General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1912.
  • Wynn, Stephen, Tanya Wynn. Women in the Great War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2017.
  • Zainaldin, Jamil S, John C. Inscoe. “Progressive Era” in the New Georgia Encyclopedia [online resource], 2008. Available from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/progressive-era [February 7, 2020]