North Carolina women their lives and times
"North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women--women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the...
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen
- The Edenton ladies: women, tea, and politics in revolutionary North Carolina / Cynthia A. Kierner
- Sister Anna: an African woman in early North Carolina / Jon Sensbach
- Elizabeth Maxwell Steele: "a great politician" and the Revolution in the southern backcountry / Cory Joe Stewart
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow: "bearer of dispatches to the Confederate government" / Sheila R. Phipps
- Catherine Devereux Edmondston: "my lines are cast in such pleasant places" / Suzanne Cooper Guasco
- Harriet and Louisa Jacobs: "not without my daughter" / Jim Downs
- Cornelia Phillips Spencer: the foremost daughter of North Carolina and the contradictions of a nineteenth-century public life / William A. Link
- Alice Morgan Person: "my life has been out of the ordinary run of woman's life" / Angela Robbins
- Mary Bayard Clarke: design for "upsetting the established order of our dear old conservative state" / Terrell Armistead Crow
- Anna Julia Cooper: Black feminist scholar, educator, and activist / Vivian M. May
- Sallie Southall Cotten: organized womanhood comes to North Carolina / Margaret Supplee Smith
- Annie Lawrie Alexander: "a woman doing a great work in a womanly way" / James Douglas Alsop
- Sarah Cowan "Daisy" Denson: the lost matriarch of state public welfare reform / Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman
- Sarah Dudley Pettey: "a new age woman" and the politics of race, class, and gender in North Carolina / Elizabeth Lundeen
- Mary Martin Sloop: mountain miracle worker / John C. Inscoe
- Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds: the public lives of progressive North Carolina's wealthiest women / Michele Gillespie
- Arizona Nick Swaney Blankenship: becoming Cherokee / Sarah H. Hill
- Samantha Biddix Bumgarner: country music pioneer / Robert Hunt Ferguson