Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

588. Southern Women Writers Re-Create the “New Woman”

7:15–8:30 p.m., Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott

Program arranged by the Ellen Glasgow Society

Presiding: Gwendolyn Jones, Clayton Coll. and State Univ.

1. “After the Fall: Ellen Glasgow, the ‘New Woman,’ and the New South,” Gwendolyn Jones

2. “Sexuality and the ‘New Woman’ in the 1890s: Amelie Rives’s Barbara Dering,” Amy J. Berke, Macon State Coll.

3. “Glasgow’s Ideals: From the ‘New Woman’ to the Flapper,” Martha E. Cook, Longwood Univ.

4. “Off the Pedestal and into the World: Lillian Smith’s Invitation to the Southern Woman,” Gabriele Stauf, Georgia Southwestern State Univ.

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