Virginia women. their lives and times / Volume 2. :

The exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kierner, Cynthia A., 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2016.
Colección:Southern women (Athens, Ga.)
Temas:
Women > Virginia > History.
Women > Virginia > Social conditions.
Women > Virginia > Biography.
Femmes > Virginie > Histoire.
Femmes > Virginie > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Virginie > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Virginia.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Adáele 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.

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