Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, History, Americas, United States, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Lindsey Apple, Sarah Case, Carolyn Dupont, Catherine Fosl, John Hill, Anya Jabour, William Kuby, Karen Cotton McDaniel, Mary Jane Smith, Andrea Watkins, Melanie Goan, Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Martha Billips, James Duane Bolin, Juilee Decker, Angela Esco Elder, Craig Thompson Friend, Melissa A. McEuen | ISBN: | 9780820347523 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press | Publication: | April 15, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University of Georgia Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lindsey Apple, Sarah Case, Carolyn Dupont, Catherine Fosl, John Hill, Anya Jabour, William Kuby, Karen Cotton McDaniel, Mary Jane Smith, Andrea Watkins, Melanie Goan, Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Martha Billips, James Duane Bolin, Juilee Decker, Angela Esco Elder, Craig Thompson Friend, Melissa A. McEuen |
| ISBN: | 9780820347523 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Publication: | April 15, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University of Georgia Press |
| Language: | English |
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention.
Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in Kentucky Women, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky’s relationship with the American South and the nation at large.
With essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking.
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention.
Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in Kentucky Women, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky’s relationship with the American South and the nation at large.
With essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking.
