uscpress.com - Women's & Gender Studies https://uscpress.com/ Central to Their Lives https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017690/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Wil Lou Gray https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017535/Wil-Lou-Gray
In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life and work of South Carolina's Wil Lou Gray (188…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Understanding Adrienne Rich https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017591/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Queerly Remembered https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017593/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017622/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017660/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017686/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 A Dream and a Chisel https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017716/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Understanding Randall Kenan https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017727/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 Southern Women in the Progressive Era https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017717/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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700