uscpress.com - Women's & Gender Studies https://uscpress.com/ Central to Their Lives https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602922/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, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Queerly Remembered https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602825/Queerly-Remembered
An interdisciplinary examination of the strategies GLBTQ communities have used to advocate for political, social, and cultural change

Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which g…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602854/Maternal-Metaphors-of-Power-in-African-American-Womens-Literature
An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history

Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602892/Southern-Perspectives-on-the-Queer-Movement
A collection of essays by South Carolina activists on the development of the LGBTQ movement

In Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home, Sheila R. Morris has colle…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602918/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, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Charleston Belles Abroad https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602947/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, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Southern Women in the Progressive Era https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602949/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, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 A Dream and a Chisel https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602948/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…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Understanding Adrienne Rich https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602823/Understanding-Adrienne-Rich
The journey of an important feminist writer through poetry, prose, and politics

Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of nu…]]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700 Children's Biographies of African American Women https://uscpress.com/book-post/3602940/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, 21 Mar 2025 08:42:46 -0700