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Ashmore, Susan Youngblood, and Lisa Lindquist Dorr, eds. 2017. Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times. Southern Women: Their Lives and Times. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 152 pp. Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women’s lives in Alabama.
Burton, William, and Barry Loveland. 2020. Out in Central Pennsylvania : The History of an Lgbtq Community. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. "Examines the rise and development of an LGBTQ community in the heart of Central Pennsylvania, and how gay identity and social and advocacy networks form outside of a large urban environment"-- Provided by publisher.
Burton, Thomas G. 2020. Voices Worth the Listening : Three Women of Appalachia First ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. "Based on recorded interviews with three different women in different parts of Appalachia, Thomas Burton's carefully crafted oral history lends a timely ear to the lives of three contemporary Appalachian women recounted in their own words. Essentialist stereotypes and misplaced debates about Appalachian character are never far from any study of this region's people-and seem closer still in the wake of J. D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy-but as readers will find here, individuals who dwell in the region have stories of their own to tell, each one differing from the other, insisting on a fresh hearing"-- Provided by publisher.
Littlefield, Valinda W, and Walter B Edgar. 2020. 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. "This collection gathers entries previously published as part of the South Carolina Encyclopedia. Each entry offers a thumbnail description of a woman with a connection to South Carolina who made a significant impact in the history of the state, nation, and, in some cases, world. The collection is organized chronologically by time period, with women associated with each period included in that section. Introductory material is provided by Valinda W. Littlefield, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina"-- Provided by publisher
Oates, Mary J. 2021. Pursuing Truth: How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America. Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press. "In Pursuing Truth, Mary Oates considers the history of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (now Notre Dame of Maryland University), the first Catholic college in America to award the four-year baccalaureate degree to women. This book adds needed depth to the historiography of gendered higher education in the United States by exploring the struggle for equal access to Catholic higher education"-- Provided by publisher
Shores, Elizabeth F. 2017. Earline's Pink Party: The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 344 pp. In Earline’s Pink Party, Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Women of Appalachia Project. 2017. Women Speak: Spoken Word Selections from Throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour and Kristine Williams. Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 44 pp. Spoken word selections from twenty-five Appalachian female writers from throughout OH, WV, and KY, speaking about the female experience in Appalachia.