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Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia
Even some enlightened academicians automatically—and incorrectly—connect illiteracy to Appalachia, contends Katherine Kelleher Sohn. After overhearing two education professionals refer to the southern accent of a waiter and then launch into…
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Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia
Even some enlightened academicians automatically—and incorrectly—connect illiteracy to Appalachia, contends Katherine Kelleher Sohn. After overhearing two education professionals refer to the southern accent of a waiter and then launch into…
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Who Cares? Women, Care, and Culture
At a time when studies suggest the average American woman spends seventeen years caring for children and eighteen years caring for aging parents, Julia T. Wood examines how culture creates…
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Woman from Spillertown
Kathryn Kish Sklar calls this work “a major contribution to our historical understanding of the role of women in organizing American miners in the twentieth century.”Agnes Burns Wieck was a…
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WomanPrayers
This rich blend of prayers, poems, and sayings by women writers and sages from around the world and throughout history offers daily inspiration and delight. Included in this collection are…
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Women’s Health Movements
This is an introduction to the women’s health movements and what is being accomplished by women organizing to achieve better health care around the world. Meredeth Turshen is…