| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 457 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-431) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Sarah Wilkerson Freeman -- Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward): Diplomatic mother / Cynthia Cumfer -- Fanny Wright: Battle against slavery / Celia Morris -- Milly Swan Price: Freedom, kinship, and property / Beverly Greene Bond -- Mary Church Terrell: Revisiting the politics of race, class, and gender / Cherisse Jones-Branch -- Alberta Hunter: "She had the world in a jug, with the stopper in her hand" / Michelle R. Scott -- Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie: Wing walker, parachute jumper, air racer / Janann Sherman -- Sue Shelton White: Lady warrior / Betty Sparks Huehls and Beverly Greene Bond -- Charl Ormond Williams: Feminist politics and education for equality / Sarah Wilkerson Freeman -- Lucille Thornburgh: "I had to be right pushy" / Connie L. Lester -- Martha Ragland: The evolution of a political feminist / Carole Bucy -- Wilma Dykeman: The hearth and the map / Melissa Walker -- Sarah Colley Cannon (Minnie Pearl): Gossiping about Grinder's Switch -- the Grand Ole Opry and the modernization of Tennessee / Kristine M. McCusker -- Diane Judith Nash: A mission for equality, justice, and social change / Linda T. Wynn -- Wilma Rudolph: Running for freedom / Aram Goudsouzian -- Jo Walker-Meador: The Country Music Association / Diane Pecknold -- Bettye Berger: Transforming the mainstream / Laura Helper-Ferris -- Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg: Feminist and race woman / Gail S. Murray -- Doris Bradshaw: Battling environmental racism / Melissa Checker. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Women -- Tennessee -- Biography.
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Women -- Tennessee -- History.
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Tennessee -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Tennessee. (OCoLC)fst01205353
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Wilkerson-Freeman, Sarah, 1956-
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Bond, Beverly G.
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Helper-Ferris, Laura.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tennessee women. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2009- 9780820329482 |
| ISBN |
9780820339016 (electronic bk.) |
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0820339016 (electronic bk.) |
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