Research Catalog

Title

Mississippi women : their histories, their lives / edited by Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, Marjorie Julian Spruill ; associate editor, Susan Ditto.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2003-<c2010>

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Additional Authors

• Swain, Martha H., 1929-
• Payne, Elizabeth Anne, 1943-
• Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-

Description

v. : ill., map; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Mississippi > Biography
• Women > Mississippi > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• v. 1. Felicité Girodeau (1791-1860) : racial and religious identity in antebellum Natchez / Emily Clark -- Winnie Davis (1864-1898) : the challenges of daughterhood / Cita Cook -- Nellie Nugent Somerville (1863-1952) : Mississippi reformer, suffragist, and politician / Marjorie Julian Spruill -- Belle Kearney (1863-1939) : Mississippi gentlewoman and slaveholder's daughter / Joanne Varner Hawks -- Pauline Van de Graaf Orr (1861-1955) : feminist education in Mississippi / Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman -- Kate Freeman Clark (1875-1957) : an artist and a lady / Kathleen McClain Jenkins -- Blanche Colton Williams (1879-1944) : mentor of southern women's literature / Bridget Smith Pieschel -- Elizabeth Lee Hazen (1885-1975) : a Mississippi microbiologist's quest for a cure / David D. Carson -- Burnita Shelton Matthews (1894-1988) : the struggle for women's rights / Kate Greene -- Minnie Brewer (1898-1978) : the life and times of a flapper feminist / Dorothy Shawhan -- Eudora Welty (1909-2001) : en route to A curtain of green / Suzanne Marrs -- Sadye Wier (1905-1995) : a life of independence and service / John F. Marszalek -- Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) : journalist under siege / Mark Newman -- Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998) : voicing form / Robert A. Harris -- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) : a new voice in American democracry / Linda Reed -- Mae Bertha Carter (1923-1999) : school desegregation in a Delta town / Constance Curry -- Vera Mae Pigee (1925- ) : mothering the movement / Françoise N. Hamlin.
• v. 2. Choctaw and Chickasaw women, 1690-1834 / James Taylor Carson -- Stepping lively in place : the free black women of antebellum Natchez / Joyce L. Broussard -- The good sisters : white Protestant women and institution building in antebellum Mississippi / Randy J. Sparks -- Naked before the law : married women and the servant ideal in antebellum Natchez / Joyce L. Broussard -- Cautious, conservative, and raced : the maternal presumption in Mississippi child custody law, 1830-1920 / Kevin D. McCarthy -- Yankees in the yard : Mississippi women during the Vicksburg Campaign / Michael B. Ballard -- The gendered construction of free labor in the Civil War delta / Nancy Bercaw -- Hearth and home : constructing domesticity in Mississippi, 1830-1920 / Susan Ditto -- Mississippi's United Daughters of the Confederacy : benevolence, Beauvoir, and the transmission of Confederate culture, 1897-1919 / Karen L. Cox -- Negotiating boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi : the women of the Knight family / Victoria E. Bynum -- "Down in Tupelo everybody seems to be feeling grand" : early home electrification promotion in northeast Mississippi / Sara E. Morris -- Gladys Presley, Dorothy Dickins, and the limits of female agrarianism in twentieth-century Mississippi / Ted Ownby -- "The lady folk is a doer" : women and the civil rights movement in Claiborn County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby -- Discovering what's already there : Mississippi women and civil rights movements / J. Todd Moye -- In the mainstream : Mississippi white women's clubs in the quest for women's rights in the twentieth century / Martha H. Swain -- The Mississippi "takeover" : feminists, antifeminists, and the International Women's Year conference of 1977 / Marjorie Julian Spruill -- The unknown grandmother, African American memory, and lives of service in northern Mississippi / Elizabeth Anne Payne ... [et al.].

Call Number

JFL 10-117

ISBN

• 0820325023 (alk. paper)
• 9780820325026 (alk. paper)
• 0820325031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780820325033 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780820333939 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
• 082033393X (v. 2 : alk. paper)
• 9780820333946 (v. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0820333948 (v. 2 : pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003008776

OCLC

52312049

Title

Mississippi women : their histories, their lives / edited by Martha H. Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, Marjorie Julian Spruill ; associate editor, Susan Ditto.

Imprint

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2003-<c2010>

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Added Author

Swain, Martha H., 1929-

Payne, Elizabeth Anne, 1943-

Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-

Research Call Number

JFL 10-117