Alabama Women Their Lives and Times / edited by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and Lisa Lindquist Dorr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dorr, Lisa Lindquist, editor.

Ashmore, Susan Youngblood, 1961- editor.

Series:

Southern women (Athens, Ga.)

Southern women: their lives and times

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Alabama--History.

Women.

Alabama--Social conditions--20th century.

Alabama.

Alabama--Social conditions--19th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2017]

Summary:

Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama. Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing, Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Martin Mayfield, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles Smith, and Harper Lee. Contributors: -Nancy Grisham Anderson on Harper Lee -Harriet E. Amos Doss on the enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Sims -Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard on Pattie Ruffner Jacobs -Caroline Gebhard on Bess Bolden Walcott -Staci Simon Glover on the immigrant women in metropolitan Birmingham -Sharony Green on the Townsend Family -Sheena Harris on Margaret Murray Washington -Christopher D. Haveman on the women of the Creek Removal Era -Kimberly D. Hill on Maria Fearing -Tina Naremore Jones on Ruby Pickens Tartt -Jenny M. Luke on Margaret Charles Smith -Rebecca Cawood McIntyre on Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Sara Martin Mayfield -Rebecca S. Montgomery on Ida E. Brandon Mathis -Paul M. Pruitt Jr. on Julia S. Tutwiler -Susan E. Reynolds on Augusta Evans Wilson -Patricia Sullivan on Virginia Foster Durr -Jeanne Theoharis on Rosa Parks -Susan Youngblood Ashmore on Lurleen Burns Wallace

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-5077-X

OCLC:

988028967