Silent Matriarchs
The harsh pioneer mountain life of the men and women who first settled in the foothills of Appalachia is mostly an echo etched somewhere in the past, …
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Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies
Women's studies unites with Appalachian studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women. Featu…
Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community
Upon Her Shoulders is a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work and act…
Voices Worth the Listening: Three Women of Appalachia
While Appalachian stereotypes and often misplaced debates about essentialism in Appalachian character still cloud our understanding of the people of t…
Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction
In this innovative work, Danny L. Miller surveys some of the depictions of mountain women from the 1880s to the 1950s, in the writings of Mary Noaille…
Indigenous Women from Appalachia in the Spanish Colonial Record
Melissa D. Birkhofer is a settler scholar who was born in Iowa and grew up in North Carolina. She is teaching assistant professor of English at Appala…
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History
Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History by Missy Dehn Kubitschek Nearly all black female novelists of twentieth-century Am…
Women and Scottish Society, 1700-2000
This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman's life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walk…
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies …
“We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible”: A Reader in Black Women’s History
A sweeping panorama of black women's experience throughout history and across classes and continents
This book was put together to reclaim, and to …