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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.
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.
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