Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Ser.)

Synopsis

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. -- Introduction / Cherisse Jones-branch And Gary T. Edwards -- Women In Early Frontier Arkansas: They Did All The Work Except Hunting / Sonia Toudji -- Bondwomen On Arkansas's Cotton Frontier: Migration, Labor, Family, And Resistance Among An Exploited Class / Kelly Houston Jones -- Amanda Trulock (1811-1891): Yankee Mistress Of The Old South / Gary T. Edwards -- Women Of The Ozarks In The Civil War: I Fear We Will See Hard Times / Rebecca A. Howard -- Freda Hogan (1892-1988): A Socialist Woman In Huntington, Arkansas / Michael Pierce -- Senator Hattie Caraway (1878-1950): A Southern Stealth Feminist And Enigmatic Liberal / Sarah Wilkerson Freeman -- Hilda Kahlert Cornish (1878-1965): A Community Volunteer And Civic Leader: The Birth Control Movement In Arkansas / Marianne Leung -- Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882-1976): Seventy-five Years Of Social Activism In Arkansas / Dianna Owens Fraley -- Sue Cowan Morris (1910-1994): An Educator And The Little Rock, Arkansas, Classroom Teachers' Salary Equalization Suit / John A. Kirk -- Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1913?-1999): The Quest For Justice / Elizabeth Jacoway -- Edith Mae Irby Jones (1927-): Brilliant... Black Pilgrim, Proud Pioneer And The Integration Of The University Of Arkansas School Of Medicine / Yulonda Eadie Sano -- Mary L. Ray (1880?-1934): Arkansas's Negro Extension Worker / Debra A. Reid -- Dr. Mamie Katherine Phipps Clark (1917-1983): American Psychologist And Arkansas Native / Loretta N. Mcgregor -- Mary Sybil Kidd Maynard Lewis (1897-1941): I'm From The South And I've Got Plenty Of Rhythm / Michael B. Dougan -- Mary Celestia Parler (1904-1981): Folklorist And Teacher / Rachel Reynolds. Edited By Cherisse Jones-branch And Gary T. Edwards. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.