Alabama women : their lives and times / edited by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and Lisa Lindquist Dorr.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Description
xi, 364 pages : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits ; 23 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The indomitable women of the Creek Removal Era: "Some one must have told her that I meant to run away with her" / Christopher D. Haveman
    • Augusta Evans Wilson: America's forgotten best-selling author / Susan E. Reynolds
    • The Townsend family: African American female "voice" and interracial ties / Sharony Green
    • The enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Sims in antebellum Alabama: sisterhood of shared suffering / Harriet E. Amos Doss
    • Maria Fearing: domestic adventurer / Kimberly D. Hill
    • Julia S. Tutwiler: the burdens of paternalism and race / Paul M. Pruitt Jr.
    • Margaret Murray Washington: a southern reformer and the Black Women's Club Movement / Sheena Harris
    • Pattie Ruffner Jacobs: personal anxiety, political triumph / Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard
    • Ida E. Brandon Mathis: the one-crop system and the limits of progressive economic reform / Rebecca S. Montgomery
    • Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Sara Martin Mayfield: "Alabama modern" / Rebecca Cawood McIntyre
    • Ruby Pickens Tartt: composing a new score / Tina Jones
    • Bess Bolden Walcott: a legacy of women's leadership at Tuskegee Institute / Caroline Gebhard
    • Lebanese, Italian, and Slavic immigrant women in metropolitan Birmingham: "Just mud roads" / Staci Glover
    • Margaret Charles Smith: lessons from midwifery / Jenny M. Luke
    • Virginia Foster Durr: "The liberation of pure white southern womanhood" / Patricia Sullivan
    • Rosa Parks: "I don't know whether I could have been more effective ... in the South than I am here in Detroit" / Jeanne Theoharis
    • Lurleen Burns Wallace: making her way in Wallace country / Susan Youngblood Ashmore
    • Harper Lee: To kill a mockingbird and "a good woman's words" / Nancy Grisham Anderson.
    ISBN
    • 9780820350783 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0820350788 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
    • 9780820350790 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    • 0820350796 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2016051435
    OCLC
    960030878
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