Kentucky Women Their Lives and Times |
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| Contribution by:
| McEuen, Melissa A.
Appleton, Thomas H.
Apple, Lindsey
Billips, Martha
Bolin, James Duane
Case, Sarah
Decker, Juilee
Dupont, Carolyn
Elder, Angela Esco
Fosl, Catherine
Friend, Craig Thompson
Goan, Melanie
Hill, John
Jabour, Anya
Kuby, William
McDaniel, Karen Cotton
Smith, Mary Jane
Watkins, Andrea |
| Editor:
| McEuen, Melissa A.
Appleton, Thomas H. |
| Series title: | Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4752-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $34.95USD $89.95 |
Book Description:
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Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve...
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Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention.
Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in Kentucky Women, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky's relationship with the American South and the nation at large.
With essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking.