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Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s
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Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s Hardcover - 2001

by Nancy A. Hewitt


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Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women--that shaped women's activism in the vibrant, multiethnic city.

Hewitt emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South's biracial social and political order.

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  • Title Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s
  • Author Nancy A. Hewitt
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st edition
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL
  • Date 2001-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780252026829 / 0252026829
  • Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.4 x 1.08 in (23.42 x 16.26 x 2.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Florida
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Florida - Tampa - History, Minority women - Florida - Tampa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001001514
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.409

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Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2002, Page 1865

About the author

Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 and coeditor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism.
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