Virginia women : their lives and times. Volume 2 / edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kierner, Cynthia A., 1958- editor.

Treadway, Sandra Gioia, editor.

JSTOR (Organization)

Series:

Southern women (Athens, Ga.)

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

[Southern women : their lives and times]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Virginia--Biography.

Women.

Women--Virginia--Social conditions.

Women--Virginia--History.

History.

Social conditions.

Virginia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 390 pages) :) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway

Lucy Goode Brooks : measures of freedom / Catherine a. Jones

Caroline F. Putnam : northern interloper in reconstructed Virginia / Amy Feely Morsman

Wage-Earning Women : work and community in Virginia's cotton textile industry / Beth English

Janet Henderson Weaver Randolph : mother of daughters / Caroline E. Janney

Orra Gray Langhorne : a voice for reform in postbellum Virginia / Antoinette G. van Zelm

Sadie Heath Cabaniss : mother of professional nursing in Virginia / Jodi L. Koste

Ad{grave}ele Clark : the artist as activist / Ray Bonis

Ellen Glasgow : expansive visionary / Pamela R. Matthews

Rural women and girls in the Virginia Home Demonstration Program : developing leaders and strengthening communities / Ann E. McCleary

Marie Kimball : pioneering scholar and first curator of Monticello / Anna Berkes

Vivian Carter Mason : community feminist / Cassandra Newby-Alexander

Sarah Patton Boyle : a white activist, the black pragmatist who taught her, and the long and the short of the civil rights movement / Jennifer Ritterhouse

Virginia "Patsy" Cline : a life and legend / Warren R. Hofstra

Black women in Prince Edward County : grassroots education and the fight for public schools, 1959-1964 / Amy J. Tillerson-Brown

Mildred Loving : the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman / Arica L. Coleman

Dorothy McDiarmid and Mary Marshall : champions of change in the Virginia General Assembly / Sandra Gioia Treadway

Sharon Bottoms and Linda Kaufman : legal rights and lesbian mothers / Megan Taylor Shockley.

Notes:

Print version cataloged as a monographic set by the Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 08, 2016).

ISBN:

9780820349671

0820349674

Publisher Number:

40026392298

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.