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Title Alabama women : their lives and times / edited by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Southern women: their lives and times
Southern women (Athens, Ga.)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Alabama -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Social conditions
Women
SUBJECT Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Alabama -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Alabama
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ashmore, Susan Youngblood, 1961- editor.
Dorr, Lisa Lindquist, editor
ISBN 9780820350776
082035077X