Arkansas Women - Their Lives and Times (Hardcover)

Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's experiences across time and space from the state's earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women, with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced the historical moment in which they lived. Diverse in nature, Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth control movement, Adolphine Fletcher Terry's antisegregationist social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris's Little Rock classroom teachers' salary equalization suit. Collectively, these inspirational essays work to acknowledge women's accomplishments and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas's rich cultural heritage.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Series
Release date:	May 2018
Editors:	Cherisse Jones-Branch • Gary T Edwards
Contributors:	Michael B Dougan • Gary T Edwards • Dianna Fraley • Rebecca Howard • Elizabeth Jacoway • Kelly Houston Jones • John Kirk • Marianne Leung
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-5331-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8203-5331-0
Barcode:	9780820353319

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