{"product_id":"mississippi-women-their-histories-their-lives-9780820325033","title":"Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicit  Girodeau of old Natchez, who was both a person of color and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who \"mothered\" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta. Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention they deserve. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders may already know such figures as writer and photographer Eudora Welty, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and poet and educator Margaret Walker Alexander. Others are probably less familiar: the microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen, the black businesswoman and civic leader Sadye Wier, the flapper feminist Minnie Brewer, or the jurist Burnita Shelton Matthews. All the featured women, whether suffrage pioneers, champions for higher education for women, or luminaries in art and literature, shared similar experiences in their struggles for success. From Winnie Davis, daughter of the Confederacy's president, to Hazel Brannon Smith, a journalist and antilynching crusader, they had in common the pains and privileges that were part of womanhood in their times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs multifaceted as the state they helped to build, the women portrayed in this engaging volume will interest and inspire Mississippians of all ages. Scholars will find here a valuable resource that adds nuance and texture to southern and women's history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brenda Eagles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.46w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820325033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Anne Payne (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ELIZABETH ANNE PAYNE is a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarjorie Julian Spruill (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARJORIE JULIAN SPRUILL is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha H. Swain (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MARTHA H. SWAIN is Cornaro Professor of History Emerita at Texas Woman's University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414656790643,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":45.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f7daf1e7-277a-4716-aee6-239398e3e16f.jpg?v=1662213549","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/mississippi-women-their-histories-their-lives-9780820325033","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}