Women of the Mountain South

Connie Park Rice is a professor in the Department of History at West Virginia University and the author of Our Monongalia: A History of African Americans in Monongalia County, West Virginia.Marie Tedesco is the director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at East Tennessee State University and coeditor of the Ohio University Press Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia.

• * Acknowledgments* Introduction: A Tapestry of Voices Women's History in the Mountain South Connie Park Rice*Part One: Identity and Women of the Mountain South* One: Women in Cherokee Society Status, Race, and Power from the Colonial Period to Removal Marie Tedesco* Two: Mothers' Day v. Mother's Day The Jarvis Women and the Meaning of Motherhood Katharine Lane Antolini* Three: Female Stereotypes and the Creation of Appalachia, 1870-1940 Deborah L. Blackwell* Four: Women on a Mission Southern Appalachia's "Benevolent Workers" on Film John C. Inscoe* Five: Embodying Appalachia Progress, Pride, and Beauty Pageantry, 1930s to the Present Karen W. Tice* Documents* Moravian Lebenslauf (Memoir or Life's Journey)* Petition for Divorce* Women of the Mountains Rev. Edgar Tufts* Rebel in the Mosque: Going Where I Know I Belong Asra Q. Nomani* An Undocumented Mexican Mother of a High School Dropout in East Tennessee Maria Alejandra Lopez* Questions for Discussion*Part Two: Women and Work in Appalachia* Six: Challenging the Myth of Separate Spheres Women's Work in the Antebellum Mountain South Wilma A. Dunaway* Seven: Cyprians and Courtesans, Murder and Mayhem Prostitution in Wheeling during the Civil War Barbara J. Howe* Eight: Professionalizing "Mountain Work" in Appalachia Women in the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers Penny Messinger* Nine: "'Two fer' the Money"? African American Women in the Appalachian Coalfields Carletta A. Bush* Ten: Flopping Tin and Punching Metal A Survey of Women Steelworkers in West Virginia, 1890-1970 Louis C. Martin* Documents* The Indenture of Mary Hollens* The Testimony of Mrs. Maggie Waters* A Working Woman Speaks* The Pikeville Methodist Hospital Strike* Poetry from the Coal Mining Women's Support Team News* Questions for Discussion*Part Three: Women and Activism in the Mountain South* Eleven: In the Footsteps of Mother Jones, Mothers of the Miners Florence Reece, Molly Jackson, and Sarah Ogan Gunning H. Ada m Ackley* Twelve: "She Now Cries Out" Linda Neville and the Limitations of Venereal Disease Control Policies in Kentucky Evelyn Ashley Sorrell* Thirteen: Garrison, Drewry, Meadows, and Bateman Race, Class, and Activism in the Mountain State Lois Lucas* Fourteen: Ethel New v. Atlantic Greyhound Fighting for Social Justice in Appalachia Jan Voogd* Fifteen: "Remembering the Past, Working for the Future" West Virginia Women Fight for Environmental Heritage and Economic Justice in the Age of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Joyce M. Barry* Documents* The Petition of Margaret Lee* The Fight for Suffrage* Abortion in the Mountain South* Helen Louise Gibson Compton: Founder and Proprietor of The Shamrock Carol Burch-Brown* At the Intersection of Cancer Survivorship, Gender, Family, and Place in Southern Central Appalachia: A Case Study Kelly A. Dorgan, Kathryn L. Duvall, and Sadie P. Hutson* Questions for Discussion* Epilogue: Reflections on the Concept of Place in the Study of Women in the Mountain South A Roundtable Discussion with the Authors* Contributors* Index

"Combines secondary and primary material in a way that no other existing book on the topic does…. It is a needed book [that represents] a milestone in the scholarship." "This volume offers an updated historical and intersectional feminist perspective on women in West Virginia and, more broadly, Appalachia...Women of the Mountain South would also be appealing to readers outside of academia interested in...Appalachia and the contributions of women to the histories of these places." (West Virginia History N.S. 11, No. 1, Spring 2017) "Connie Rice Park and Marie Tedesco have masterfully organized this collection of important new essays and commentaries on a rich array of primary documents to add depth and breadth to our understanding of 200 years of diverse women's lives and livelihood in the Mountain South." "This is a fabulous and long-overdue collection that highlights just how rich and diverse are the experiences and identities of women in Appalachia. It includes work from some of the best new scholars on the region along with important insights from seasoned veterans. Combining key documents, meaty essays, and questions for discussion, this book will surely be a gold mine for Appalachian studies, but it will also illuminate much broader themes in the gendered history of the United States. I can't wait to assign it to a class."