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Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove: The Myth of Southern Womanhood and Female Education in Postwar Virginia

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Civil War, Reconstruction, Virginia, Southern womanhood, patriarchy, Anne Firor Scott, education reform movement, women's colleges, State Female Normal, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, University of Virginia, W. H. Ruffner, William W. Smith

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McCue, S., (1979) “Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove: The Myth of Southern Womanhood and Female Education in Postwar Virginia”, Essays in History 23, 37-54. doi: https://doi.org/10.25894/eih.417

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Susan E. McCue

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