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 Mc- Dowell 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 ground-breaking.
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