Product Description: Born, raised, and retired in Mississippi, Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895-–1997) was a champion of the rights of women long before feminism emerged as a widely recognized movement. As told by Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain, hers is a remarkable life story--from a small-town upbringing to a career as an attorney, an activist, and the last survivor of the New Deal women in Washington, D...read more

Product Description: In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985...read more

Product Description: Jane Addams is most widely remembered as a founder of Hull House, but her social vision extended far beyond Chicago's Halsted Street. The first real adventurer in the unexplored territory of social amelioration in America, Addams worked tirelessly on behalf of a multitude of social causes, including industrial and educational reform, drug laws, sanitation, disaster relief, and food purity...read more

Product Description: This important collection contains selections by twenty scholars who have won Woodrow Wilson Fellowships in Women¿s Studies over the last 30 years, and have helped establish and further women's studies; they write about the changes in their fields, their recent research, and the theoretical underpinnings of their work...read more

Product Description: This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicité Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who "mothered" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta...read more

Product Description: The variety and fevor of comment that greeted Anne Scott's The Southern Lady in 1970 can now be seen as a foreshadowing for its lasting impact. In her wide-ranging new Afterword to this edition of a work not infrequently called a classic, the noted historian describes the way it came to be written, asks what she would do differently now, and suggests areas for further exploration...read more

Product Description: In this collective biography one of the preeminent historians of her generation retrieves the work and lives of the few who preceded her in writing the history of women in the South.

Product Description: "Natural Allies", based on painstaking research begun more than 30 years ago when Anne Frior Scott was preparing her now-classic "The Southern Lady", is clear and highly readable. It will appeal not only to historians and sociologists but also to anyone working with or studying voluntary organizations...read more

Challenges the traditional view of Southern women in the nineteenth century, revealing their gradual emergence into political and professional spheres