Volume 1 of "Mississippi Women" enriched our understanding of
women's roles in the state's history through profiles of notable,
though often neglected, individuals. Volume 2 explores the
historical forces that have shaped women's lives in Mississippi.
Covering an expanse of time from early European settlement through
the course of the twentieth century, the essays in the second
volume acknowledge the state's diverse cultural and physical
landscapes as they discuss how issues of race, gender, and class
affected women's lives in various private and public spheres.
Essays on the state's early history focus on such topics as
Choctaw and Chickasaw women's influence on Native American society
and tribal councils, daily life for free black women in
slaveholding Natchez, and the efforts of white Protestant women to
establish churches on the frontier. Several essays cast new light
on legal concerns, including two on the pivotal Married Women's
Property Act of 1839, while other essays examine the impact of the
Civil War and Reconstruction on women's lives.
The boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi are
explored through an essay on the women of the mixed-race Knight
family, notably the educator, nurse, and missionary Anna Knight.
Women's experiences with rural electrification, consumerism, civil
rights activism, social and service clubs, and feminism are among
the other twentieth-century topics addressed in the essays. Volume
2 concludes with an essay on storytelling and remembrance that
centers on the family of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist (and
Mississippi native) William Raspberry.
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