Books written by Elna C. Green

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  Looking for the New Deal: Florida Women's Letters During the Great Depression

  In this volume Elna C. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight.

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  This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940

  Varon , “ ' We Mean to Be Counted , ” 77 . 39. Loveland , Southern Evangelicals , 169 . 40. The literature on women's antebellum benevolent activities has grown extensive . See for example Ginzberg , Women and the Work of Benevolence ...

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  Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question

  Coming from a wide array of beliefs and backgrounds, Green argues, southern women approached enfranchisement with an equally varied set of strategies and ideologies. Each camp defined and redefined itself in opposition to the other.

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  The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South Since 1930

  ... Preserving the Family Farm : Women , Community , and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1995 ) ; Rebecca Sharpless , Fertile Ground , Narrow Choices : Women on Texas Cotton ...

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  Before the New Deal: Social Welfare in the South, 1830-1930

  This book examines the history of southern social welfare institutions and policies in those formative years. Ten original essays explore the local nature of welfare and the limited role of the state prior to the New Deal.