Women in Kentucky / Helen Deiss Irvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irvin, Helen Deiss, author.

Series:

Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf.

Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Kentucky--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1979.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In more than two hundred years of statehood, most Kentucky women have been invisible to history. Yet from the first settlement, women have been prominent contributors to Kentucky history and culture. Women in Kentucky tells the stories of the ordinary women of lonely frontier farms, the women both black and white whose lives were shaped by slavery, and the laboring women of the factories and shops in rising urban centers. Helen Deiss Irvin also profiles the exceptional Kentucky women whose lives became more visible: abolitionist Delia Webster, suffragists Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Brec

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Settlers; 2 The Captives; 3 An Elite Emerges; 4 Slave State; 5 The Workers; 6 The Reformers; Principal Sources

Notes:

"Paperback edition 2009"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813184760

0813184762

9780813150659

0813150655

OCLC:

561948233