Kentucky Women

Their Lives and Times

Melissa McEuen, Thomas Appleton

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780820344539, 9780820344522
• eBook ISBN: 9780820347523
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention.

Shawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in Kentucky Women, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky's relationship with the American South and the nation at large.

With essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking.

Index

Italicized numbers represent those pages on which illustrations appear.

Abbott, Edith, 148–53, 166n71, 225

The Delinquent Child and the Home (with S. Breckinridge), 150

The Housing Problem in Chicago (with S. Breckinridge), 150

Truancy and Non-Attendance in the Chicago Schools (with S. Breckinridge), 150

Women in Industry, 148

Abbott, Grace, 149, 152, 225

Abbott, Lawrence F., 213

Abernathy, Ralph David, 348, 349

Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, 8–9

abortion, 190n30, 348

Adair, James, 21

Addams, Jane, 148, 153–54, 172, 225–32 passim, 240, 247n46

Adelaide Nutting Award, 305

Adsmore Museum, 391, 395–96

AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations), 344, 371

African Americans: in Appalachia, 182

challenges of unmarried mothers, 151

civil disobedience of, 342–43, 344–45

community building, 278–89 passim

desegregation of housing, 49–50

as domestic servants, 141, 145, 223, 341

educational opportunities, 281, 282, 291n31

establishment of Douglass Park for, 231, 234

foodways, 385

given right to serve on juries, 275

given right to testify against white people, 275

housing conditions in Chicago, 150

lynching, 277, 279, 284, 292n48

middle-class in Louisville, 340

police indifference to, 278

politics of respectability, 282–83

race relations in Lexington, 277

“racial etiquette,” 145

racial uplift, 233–34, 282–84

religion’s importance to, 340–41

role of church, 279

role of club women, 278–79, 281, 285–86

segregated facilities of, 275, 277

segregated housing of, 277, 284

segregation of, 340–41, 342, 343, 345, 354n11

suffrage, 239

white perceptions of, 283, 287–88

and white supremacy, 144–45

agriculture: Harriett...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Nonhelema Hokolesqua (1718–1786), Jemima Boone Callaway (1762–1829), and Matilda Lewis Threlkeld (1799-c. 1885)
• Anne Pogue McGinty (c. 1735–1815) and Anne McCarty Braden (1924–2006)
• Mary Jane Warfield Clay (1815–1900)
• Emilie Todd Helm (1836–1930) and Mary Todd Lincoln (1818–1882)
• Josie Underwood (1840–1923) and Frances Dallam Peter (1843–1864)
• Laura Clay (1849–1941)
• Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866–1948)
• Katherine Pettit (1868–1936) and May Stone (1867–1946)
• Enid Yandell (1869–1934)
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920)
• Linda Neville (1873–1961)
• Elizabeth “Lizzie” Fouse (1875–1952)
• Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965)
• Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908–1986)
• Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers (1923–)
• Martha Layne Collins (1936–)
• Nancy Newsom Mahaffey (1955–)
• Selected Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index