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…
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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…
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy All…
Her Words: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Women’s Poetry
Over the last generation, Appalachia has produced a number of women poets who have refined and redefined the boundaries of the region's literature and…
Appalachian Women: An Annotated Bibliography
Appalachian women have been the subject of song, story, and report for nearly two centuries. Now for the first time a fully annotated bibliography mak…
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies
In many parts of Appalachia, family ties run deep, constituting an important part of an individual's sense of self. In some cases, when Appalachian le…
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming…
Women Speak, Volume 5 (Women of Appalachia Project)
Appalachia holds a multitude of identities and experiences, and the Women of Appalachia Project's(TM) Women Speak anthology speaks to the complexity o…
Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College
Even some enlightened academicians automatically--and incorrectly--connect illiteracy to Appalachia, contends Katherine Kelleher Sohn. After overheari…
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
Thirty-five women writers from Appalachia define the region in a larger, more generous, and more intricate way that it has been defined before, dispel…