- 332 pages
- English
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About This Book
Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women's experiences across time and space from the state's earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively complicates Arkansas history by providing a multidimensional focus on women, with a particular appreciation for how gendered issues influenced the historical moment in which they lived.
Diverse in nature, Arkansas Women contains stories about women on the Arkansas frontier, including the narratives of indigenous women and their interactions with European men and of bondwomen of African descent who were forcibly moved to Arkansas from the seaboard South to labor on cotton plantations. There are also essays about twentieth-century women who were agents of change in their communities, such as Hilda Kahlert Cornish and the Arkansas birth control movement, Adolphine Fletcher Terry's antisegregationist social activism, and Sue Cowan Morris's Little Rock classroom teachers' salary equalization suit. Collectively, these inspirational essays work to acknowledge women's accomplishments and to further discussions about their contributions to Arkansas's rich cultural heritage.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Women in Early Frontier Arkansas : āThey Did All the Work except Huntingā
- Bondwomen on Arkansasās Cotton Frontier : Migration, Labor, Family, and Resistance among an Exploited Class
- Amanda Trulock (1811ā1891) : Yankee Mistress of the Old South
- Women of the Ozarks in the Civil War : āI Fear We Will See Hard Timesā
- Freda Hogan (1892ā1988) : A Socialist Woman in Huntington, Arkansas
- Senator Hattie Caraway (1878ā1950) : A Southern Stealth Feminist and Enigmatic Liberal
- Hilda Kahlert Cornish (1878ā1965) : A Community Volunteer and Civic Leader: The Birth Control Movement in Arkansas
- Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882ā1976) : Seventy-Five Years of Social Activism in Arkansas
- Sue Cowan Morris (1910ā1994) : An Educator and the Little Rock, Arkansas, Classroom Teachersā Salary Equalization Suit
- Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1913?ā1999) : The Quest for Justice
- Edith Mae Irby Jones (1927ā) : āBrilliant . . . Black Pilgrim, Proud Pioneerā and the Integration of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
- Mary L. Ray (1880?ā1934) : Arkansasās Negro Extension Worker
- Dr. Mamie Katherine Phipps Clark (1917ā1983) : American Psychologist and Arkansas Native
- Mary Sybil Kidd Maynard Lewis (1897ā1941) : āIām from the South and Iāve Got Plenty of Rhythmā
- Mary Celestia Parler (1904ā1981) : Folklorist and Teacher
- Contributors
- Index