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 - Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women:  Their Lives and Times) - 9780820325033 - V9780820325033
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Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)

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Description for Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times) Paperback. These biographies aim to gain Mississippi's womens their place in its written record. The women whose stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau, who was both a person of colour and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who "mothered" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. Editor(s): Swain, Martha H. (Cornaro Professor of History Emerita, Texas Women's University, USA); Payne, Elizabeth Anne (Professor of History, University of Mississippi, USA); Spruill, Marjorie Julian (Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, USA); Ditto, Susan. Num Pages: 360 pages, 17 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.

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. Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve.

Readers may already know such figures as writer and photographer Eudora Welty, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and poet and educator Margaret Walker Alexander. Others are probably less familiar: the microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen, the black businesswoman and civic leader Sadye Wier, the flapper feminist Minnie Brewer, or the jurist Burnita Shelton Matthews. All the featured women, whether suffrage pioneers, champions for higher education for women, or luminaries in art and literature, shared similar experiences in their struggles for success. From Winnie Davis, daughter of the Confederacy's president, to Hazel Brannon Smith, a journalist and antilynching crusader, they had in common the pains and privileges that were part of womanhood in their times.

As multifaceted as the state they helped to build, the women portrayed in this engaging volume will interest and inspire Mississippians of all ages. Scholars will find here a valuable resource that adds nuance and texture to southern and women's history.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820325033
SKU
V9780820325033
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-27

About
Elizabeth Anne Payne (Editor) ELIZABETH ANNE PAYNE is a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. Marjorie Julian Spruill (Editor) MARJORIE JULIAN SPRUILL is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Martha H. Swain (Editor) MARTHA H. SWAIN is Cornaro Professor of History Emerita at Texas Woman's University.

Reviews for Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)
One cannot read these pages without developing a greatly enhanced sense of appreciation of the role these gifted and dedicated individuals played in shaping for the better the lives of the people of our state.
William F. Winter
former governor of Mississippi

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