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