uscpress.com - Women's & Gender Studies https://uscpress.com/ The Damned Don't Cry - They Just Disappear https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534671/The-Damned-Dont-Cry-They-Just-Disappear
A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South

In The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist H…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Remembering Women Differently https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534744/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Understanding Randall Kenan https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534737/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Southern Women in the Progressive Era https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534727/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Charleston Belles Abroad https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534725/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Understanding Jim Grimsley https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534721/Understanding-Jim-Grimsley
The first book-length study of an influential voice in contemporary queer American literature

Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Children's Biographies of African American Women https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534718/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Central to Their Lives https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534700/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…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534696/Single-White-Slaveholding-Women-in-the-Nineteenth-Century-American-South
A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South

Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South i…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 Partners of Zaynab https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534452/Partners-of-Zaynab
How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious roles an…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700