uscpress.com - Women's & Gender Studies https://uscpress.com/ Remembering Women Differently https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209597/Remembering-Women-Differently
An examination of women's work, rhetorical agency, and the construction of female reputation

Before the full and honest tale of humanity can be told, it will be necessary to uncover the…]]>
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Children's Biographies of African American Women https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209571/Childrens-Biographies-of-African-American-Women
A study of how rhetoric has shaped the life stories of African American role models in children's literature

In Children's Biographies of African American Women: Rhetoric, Public Memory…]]>
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Charleston Belles Abroad https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209578/Charleston-Belles-Abroad
An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum period

In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role…]]>
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A Dream and a Chisel https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209579/A-Dream-and-a-Chisel
A portrait of a young artist's formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words

Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a n…]]>
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Southern Women in the Progressive Era https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209580/Southern-Women-in-the-Progressive-Era
Riveting, revealing stories from women of all walks of southern life taking on the challenges of the Progressive Era

From the 1890s to the end of World War I, the reformers who called t…]]>
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Understanding Randall Kenan https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209590/Understanding-Randall-Kenan
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writer

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and…]]>
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Crossings and Encounters https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209625/Crossings-and-Encounters
A collection of essays detailing how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experiences and in the cultural imagination

For centuries the Atlantic world ha…]]>
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Enduring Shame https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209667/Enduring-Shame
A study of the rhetorical power of shame and its effect on reproductive politics

Not long ago, unmarried pregnant women in the United States hid in maternity homes and relinquished thei…]]>
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Your Daughters Will Prophesy https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209638/Your-Daughters-Will-Prophesy
How nineteenth-century women used the Bible to claim their voice on the moral questions of their day

Caught between their identity as Christians and social norms that silenced them, Am…]]>
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Central to Their Lives https://uscpress.com/book-post/4209553/Central-to-Their-Lives
Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South

Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist paint…]]>
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