Tennessee Women Their Lives and Times

Name: Tennessee Women Their Lives and Times
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ISBN: 9780820329499

ISBN-10: 0820329495

ISBN-13: 9780820329499

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sarah Wilkerson Freeman, Beverly Greene Bond, Laura Helper-Ferris, Aram Goudsouzian, Betty Huehls

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Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers, and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee history. Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times shifts the historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical drama. The eighteen…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Aram Goudsouzianis Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis and the author ofSidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon.



Preface



Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward): Diplomatic Mother



Fanny Wright: Battle against Slavery



Milly Swan Price: Freedom, Kinship, and Property



Mary Church Terrell: Revisiting the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender



Alberta Hunter: "She Had the World in a Jug, with the Stopper in Her Hand"



Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie: Wing Walker, Parachute Jumper, Air Racer



Sue Shelton White: Lady Warrior



Charl Ormond Williams: Feminist Politics and Education for Equality



Lucille Thornburgh: "I Had to Be Right Pushy"



Martha Ragland: The Evolution of a Political Feminist



Wilma Dykeman: The Hearth and the Map



Sarah Colley Cannon (Minnie Pearl): Gossiping about Grinder's Switch-The Grand Ole Opry and the Modernization of Tennessee



Diane Judith Nash: A Mission for Equality, Justice, and Social Change



Wilma Rudolph: Running for Freedom



Jo Walker-Meador: The Country Music Association



Bettye Berger: Transforming the Mainstream



Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg: Feminist and Race Woman



Doris Bradshaw: Battling Environmental Racism



Selected Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index