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2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

Romantic letters are central to understanding…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449948/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449949/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449950/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449960/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449967/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4450008/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4450058/101-Women-Who-Shaped-South-Carolina
Prior to the twenty-first century, most historical writing about women in South Carolina focused on elite White women, even though working-class women of diverse backgrounds were actively enga…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4450037/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4449941/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…]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:30 -0700