Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner

Elaine J. Lawless is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Folklore Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Missouri, where she first met Win in 1983. Lawless has previously published eight scholarly books, including most recently Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative. Winifred Bryan Horner was Professor of English at the University of Missouri and Endowed Chair in Writing and Rhetoric Emerita at Texas Christian University. As one of the earliest scholars to unite rhetoric with composition, she was author of over 30 articles and nine published books.

• Preface: Meeting WinIntroduction: Writing Win's Life1. Barefoot Girl Running with the Boys2. Loving School and Being Popular3. Funny War Bride4. Washing Diapers in Cistern Water on a Missouri Farm5. Win's Ticket Off the Farm6. A Room of Her Own in Michigan7. Battling the Old Boys' Club8. A Win for Texas9. Epilogue: Reflections on a LifeAppendix: Winifred Bryan Horner, Vitae and BibliographyAcknowledgments

"The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner will be of interest to both general and academic readers with an interest in the challenges faced by academic women of an earlier generation—and a must-read for those with no such interest. Readers will come away feeling like they've come to know Horner just enough to wish that they, too, had been her mentee and friend."(Journal of Folklore Research)