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Virginia women. Volume 2. : their lives and times / edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Southern women (Athens, Ga.)Publication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (x, 390 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820349671
  • 0820349674
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.409755 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1438.V5 K54 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway -- Lucy Goode Brooks : measures of freedom / Catherine a. Jones -- Caroline F. Putnam : northern interloper in reconstructed Virginia / Amy Feely Morsman -- Wage-Earning Women : work and community in Virginia's cotton textile industry / Beth English -- Janet Henderson Weaver Randolph : mother of daughters / Caroline E. Janney -- Orra Gray Langhorne : a voice for reform in postbellum Virginia / Antoinette G. van Zelm -- Sadie Heath Cabaniss : mother of professional nursing in Virginia / Jodi L. Koste -- Ad�aele Clark : the artist as activist / Ray Bonis -- Ellen Glasgow : expansive visionary / Pamela R. Matthews -- Rural women and girls in the Virginia Home Demonstration Program : developing leaders and strengthening communities / Ann E. McCleary -- Marie Kimball : pioneering scholar and first curator of Monticello / Anna Berkes -- Vivian Carter Mason : community feminist / Cassandra Newby-Alexander -- Sarah Patton Boyle : a white activist, the black pragmatist who taught her, and the long and the short of the civil rights movement / Jennifer Ritterhouse -- Virginia "Patsy" Cline : a life and legend / Warren R. Hofstra -- Black women in Prince Edward County : grassroots education and the fight for public schools, 1959-1964 / Amy J. Tillerson-Brown -- Mildred Loving : the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman / Arica L. Coleman -- Dorothy McDiarmid and Mary Marshall : champions of change in the Virginia General Assembly / Sandra Gioia Treadway -- Sharon Bottoms and Linda Kaufman : legal rights and lesbian mothers / Megan Taylor Shockley.
Summary: The exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women.
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Introduction / Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway -- Lucy Goode Brooks : measures of freedom / Catherine a. Jones -- Caroline F. Putnam : northern interloper in reconstructed Virginia / Amy Feely Morsman -- Wage-Earning Women : work and community in Virginia's cotton textile industry / Beth English -- Janet Henderson Weaver Randolph : mother of daughters / Caroline E. Janney -- Orra Gray Langhorne : a voice for reform in postbellum Virginia / Antoinette G. van Zelm -- Sadie Heath Cabaniss : mother of professional nursing in Virginia / Jodi L. Koste -- Ad�aele Clark : the artist as activist / Ray Bonis -- Ellen Glasgow : expansive visionary / Pamela R. Matthews -- Rural women and girls in the Virginia Home Demonstration Program : developing leaders and strengthening communities / Ann E. McCleary -- Marie Kimball : pioneering scholar and first curator of Monticello / Anna Berkes -- Vivian Carter Mason : community feminist / Cassandra Newby-Alexander -- Sarah Patton Boyle : a white activist, the black pragmatist who taught her, and the long and the short of the civil rights movement / Jennifer Ritterhouse -- Virginia "Patsy" Cline : a life and legend / Warren R. Hofstra -- Black women in Prince Edward County : grassroots education and the fight for public schools, 1959-1964 / Amy J. Tillerson-Brown -- Mildred Loving : the extraordinary life of an ordinary woman / Arica L. Coleman -- Dorothy McDiarmid and Mary Marshall : champions of change in the Virginia General Assembly / Sandra Gioia Treadway -- Sharon Bottoms and Linda Kaufman : legal rights and lesbian mothers / Megan Taylor Shockley.

The exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women.

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