| Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 2 Contributor(s): Clark, Kathleen Ann (Editor), Dews, Carlos (Contribution by), Eskew, Glenn T. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0820337854 ISBN-13: 9780820337852 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009008552 |
| Series: Southern Women: Their Lives and Times |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.40 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women, edited by Ann Short Chirhart and Kathleen Ann Clark, vividly portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state's history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Georgia women were instrumental to state and national politics even before they achieved suffrage, and as essays on Lillian Smith, Frances Pauley, Coretta Scott King, and others demonstrate, they played a key role in twentieth-century struggles over civil rights, gender equality, and the proper size and reach of government. Georgia women's contributions have been wide ranging in the arena of arts and culture and include the works of renowned blues singer Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and such nationally prominent literary figures as Margaret Mitchell, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor, as well as Walker. While many of the volume's essays take a fresh look at relatively well-known figures, readers will also have the opportunity to discover women who were vital to Georgia's history yet remain relatively obscure today, such as Atlanta educator and activist Lugenia Burns Hope, World War II aviator Hazel Raines, entrepreneur and carpet manufacturer Catherine Evans Whitener, and rural activist and author Vara A. Majette. Collectively, the life stories portrayed in this volume deepen our understanding of the multifaceted history of not only Georgia women but also the state itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Kathleen Ann: - KATHLEEN ANN CLARK is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia and the author of Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913.Eskew, Glenn T.: - GLENN T. ESKEW is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle, editor of Labor in the Modern South, and coeditor of Paternalism in a Southern City.Goodson, Steve: - STEVE GOODSON is an associate professor of history at the State University of West Georgia.Gordon, Sarah: - SARAH GORDON is a professor emerita of English at Georgia College and State University. She was for many years the chair of her university's internationally renowned symposia on O'Connor. In addition she was the editor of the Flannery O'Connor Bulletin and the founding editor of the Flannery O'Connor Review. Her books include Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination and Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius.Inscoe, John C.: - JOHN C. INSCOE is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia and the founding editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He is coauthor of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia.Chirhart, Ann Short: - ANN SHORT CHIRHART is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.Patton, Randall L.: - RANDALL L. PATTON is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is coauthor, with David B. Parker, of Carpet Capital: The Rise of a New South Industry, author of Shaw Industries: A History, and editor of Working for Equality: The Narrative of Harry Hudson (all Georgia). |