Alabama Women

Their Lives and Times

Lisa Lindquist Dorr, Susan Youngblood Ashmore

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Print ISBN: 9780820350790, 9780820350783
• eBook ISBN: 9780820350776
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama.

Featured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing, Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Martin Mayfield, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles Smith, and Harper Lee.

Contributors:
-Nancy Grisham Anderson on Harper Lee
-Harriet E. Amos Doss on the enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Sims
-Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard on Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
-Caroline Gebhard on Bess Bolden Walcott
-Staci Simon Glover on the immigrant women in metropolitan Birmingham
-Sharony Green on the Townsend Family
-Sheena Harris on Margaret Murray Washington
-Christopher D. Haveman on the women of the Creek Removal Era
-Kimberly D. Hill on Maria Fearing
-Tina Naremore Jones on Ruby Pickens Tartt
-Jenny M. Luke on Margaret Charles Smith
-Rebecca Cawood McIntyre on Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Sara Martin Mayfield
-Rebecca S. Montgomery on Ida E. Brandon Mathis
-Paul M. Pruitt Jr. on Julia S. Tutwiler
-Susan E. Reynolds on Augusta Evans Wilson
-Patricia Sullivan on Virginia Foster Durr
-Jeanne Theoharis on Rosa Parks
-Susan Youngblood Ashmore on Lurleen Burns Wallace

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Indomitable Women of the Creek Removal Era: “Some One Must Have Told Her That I Meant to Run Away with Her”
• Augusta Evans Wilson: America’s Forgotten Best-Selling Author
• The Townsend Family: African American Female “Voice” and Interracial Ties
• The Enslaved Women Surgical Patients of J. Marion Sims in Antebellum Alabama: Sisterhood of Shared Suffering
• Maria Fearing: Domestic Adventurer
• Julia S. Tutwiler: The Burdens of Paternalism and Race
• Margaret Murray Washington: A Southern Reformer and the Black Women’s Club Movement
• Pattie Ruffner Jacobs: Personal Anxiety / Political Triumph
• Ida E. Brandon Mathis: The One-Crop System and the Limits of Progressive Economic Reform
• Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Sara Martin Mayfield: “Alabama Modern”
• Ruby Pickens Tartt: Composing a New Score
• Bess Bolden Walcott: A Legacy of Women’s Leadership at Tuskegee Institute
• Lebanese, Italian, and Slavic Immigrant Women in Metropolitan Birmingham: “Just Mud Roads”
• Margaret Charles Smith: Lessons from Midwifery
• Virginia Foster Durr: “The Liberation of Pure White Southern Womanhood”
• Rosa Parks: “I Don’t Know Whether I Could Have Been More Effective .. . in the South Than I Am Here in Detroit”
• Lurleen Burns Wallace: Making Her Way in Wallace Country
• Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird and “A Good Woman’s Words”
• Contributors
• Index