Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser., 18)

Synopsis

The Indomitable Women Of The Creek Removal Era: Some One Must Have Told Her That I Meant To Run Away With Her / Christopher D. Haveman -- Augusta Evans Wilson: America's Forgotten Best-selling Author / Susan E. Reynolds -- The Townsend Family: African American Female Voice And Interracial Ties / Sharony Green -- The Enslaved Women Surgical Patients Of J. Marion Sims In Antebellum Alabama: Sisterhood Of Shared Suffering / Harriet E. Amos Doss -- Maria Fearing: Domestic Adventurer / Kimberly D. Hill -- Julia S. Tutwiler: The Burdens Of Paternalism And Race / Paul M. Pruitt Jr. -- Margaret Murray Washington: A Southern Reformer And The Black Women's Club Movement / Sheena Harris -- Pattie Ruffner Jacobs: Personal Anxiety, Political Triumph / Wayne Flynt And Marlene Hunt Rikard -- Ida E. Brandon Mathis: The One-crop System And The Limits Of Progressive Economic Reform / Rebecca S. Montgomery -- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald And Sara Martin Mayfield: Alabama Modern / Rebecca Cawood Mcintyre -- Ruby Pickens Tartt: Composing A New Score / Tina Jones -- Bess Bolden Walcott: A Legacy Of Women's Leadership At Tuskegee Institute / Caroline Gebhard -- Lebanese, Italian, And Slavic Immigrant Women In Metropolitan Birmingham: Just Mud Roads / Staci Glover -- Margaret Charles Smith: Lessons From Midwifery / Jenny M. Luke -- Virginia Foster Durr: The Liberation Of Pure White Southern Womanhood / Patricia Sullivan -- Rosa Parks: I Don't Know Whether I Could Have Been More Effective ... In The South Than I Am Here In Detroit / Jeanne Theoharis -- Lurleen Burns Wallace: Making Her Way In Wallace Country / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird And A Good Woman's Words / Nancy Grisham Anderson. Edited By Susan Youngblood Ashmore And Lisa Lindquist Dorr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.