Women in Kentucky - Selected Readings


SELECTED READINGS  



ART

Bank, Mirra.  Anonymous Was A Woman: A Celebration in Words and Images of Traditional American Art and the Women Who Made it.  New York: T. Martin’s Griffin, 1995.

 Barker, Garry G.  The Handcraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990.  Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Becker, Jane.  Selling Tradition:  Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

George, Phyllis.  Craft in America: Celebrating the Creative Work of the Hand.  Fort Worth:  Summit Group, 1993.

_____.   Kentucky Crafts:  Heartfelt and Homemade in Kentucky.  New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.

hooks, bell.  Art on my Mind: Visual Politics.  New York: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton, 1995.

Joyce, Jane Wilson and Meredith Sue Willis.   Quilt Pieces.  Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomen Press, nd.

Finney, Nikky.  Sister Vision.  Toronto: Black Women and Women of Color Press, 1995.

Pershing, Linda.  The Ribbon around the Pentagon: Peace by Piecemakers.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, Publications of the American Folklore Society, New Series: 1996.

_____.  Sew to Speak: The Fabric Art of Mary Milne.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

Tobin, Jacqueline L. and Raymond G. Dobard, Ph.D.  Hidden in Plain View: Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.  New York:  Random House, 1999.

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BUSINESS

Giesen, Carol A.B.  Coal Miners' Wives.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.  Women and Economics. Boston: Dover, 1898 (reprinted 1966).

Helgesen, Sally.  The Web of Inclusion.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Kahn, Kathy.  Hillbilly Women.  New York: Avon, 1980.

Roberts, Marie Mulvey and Tamae Mizuta.  The Workers: Women and Labour.  London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995.

Sergio, Leslie.  A Measure Filled:  The Life of Lena Madesin Phillips Drawn from Her Autobiography.  New York: R.B. Luce, 1972.

Stern Madeleine B.  We, the Women:  Career Firsts of Nineteenth Century.  New York:  1963.

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EDUCATION

Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt.  "Cora Wilson Stewart and The Illiteracy Crusade: 'Moonlight Schools' and Progressive Reform."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1996.

Birdwhistell, Terry L.  "An Educated Difference: Women at the University of Kentucky through the Second World War." Ed.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1994.

Byars, Lauretta.  Lexington's Colored Orphan Industrial Home: Building for the Future.  Lexington, Kentucky: I.B. Bold Publications, 1995.

Carroll, Rebecca.   Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 1997.

Delta Kappa Gamma Society.  Well-Spring in the Wilderness: Project Pioneer Women Teachers, Kentucky.  Louisville: Gibbs Inman, 1955.

Echevarria, Pegine.  For All Our Daughters: How Mentoring Helps Young Women & Girls Master the Art of Growing Up.  Worcester: Chandler House Press, 1998.

Glazer-Raynn, Judith.  Shattering Myths:  Women in Academe.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins Press, 1999.

Grumet, Madeline R.  Bitter Milk: Women and Teaching.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Hartford, Ellen Ford.  Little White Schoolhouse.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky for the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, 1977.

Nelms, Jr., Willie E.  "Cora Wilson Stewart and the Crusade Against Illiteracy in Kentucky" The Register  (Jan. 1976):10-29;(Spr. 1984):151-69.

Searles, David.  A College for Appalachia:  Alice Lloyd on Caney Creek.   Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Stephenson, Jane B.  Courageous Paths: Stories of Nine Appalachian Women.   San Francisco: Custom & Limited Editions,1995.

Whisnant, David.   All That is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

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HEALTH/MEDICINE

Boehmer, Ulrike.  The Personal and the Political: Women’s Activism in Response to Breast Cancer and AIDS Epidemics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.

Breckinridge, Mary.  Wide Neighborhoods: The Story of the Frontier Nursing Service.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.

Celebrating Health Care in Eastern Kentucky: Special Salute to FNS (Frontier Nursing Service) for 70 Years of Care. n.p. Printed for the 33rd Annual Mary Breckinridge Festival, 1975.

Chester, Pennfield.  Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of American Midwives.  Piscataway:  Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Delgado, Jane L., the National Hispanic Women’s Health Initiative, and Antonia C. Novello.  Salud! : A Latina's Guide to Total Health-Body, Mind, and Spirit.  New York: Harperperennial Library, 1997.

Jacobs, Ruth Harriet.  Be An Outrageous Older Woman:  RASP (Remarkable Aging Smart Person).  Manchester: K.I.T. Press, 1993.

Lay, Martha.  The Rhetoric of Midwifery:  Gender, Knowledge, and Power. Piscataway:  Rutgers University Press, 1999.

Leavitt, Judith ed.  Women and Health in America.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Macdonald, Barbara and Cynthia Rich.  Look Me in the Eye: Women, Aging, and Ageism.  San Francisco: Spinsters, Inc., 1993.

McConkey, James.  Rowan’s Progress.   New York: Random House, 1992.

Nichter, Mimi.  Fat Talk:  What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting. Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1999.

Payne, Michelle.  Bodily Discourses:  When Students Write About Abuse and Eating Disorders.  Portsmouth:  Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1999.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.  A Midwife's Tale.  New York: Random House, 1990.

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JOURNALISM

Beasley, Maurine H. and Sheila J. Gibbons.  Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism.  Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1993.

Carter, Cynthia, Gill Branston and Stuart Allan, eds.  News, Gender, and Power.  London: Routledge, 1998.

Douglas, Susan J.  Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media.  New York: Time Books, 1995.

Dunnigan, Alice Allison.  A Black Woman's Experience: From Schoolhouse to White House.  Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1974.

Good, Howard.   Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies.  Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Hermes, Joke.  Reading Women's Magazines: An Analysis of Everyday Media Use.  Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996.

Hill, Anne E.  Broadcasting & Journalism.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999.

Sawyer, Diane, ed.   Disabled Readers: Insight, Assessment, Instruction.   Newark: International Reading Association, 1980.

Streitmatter, Rodger.  Raising Her Voice: African- American Women Journalists Who Changed History.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.  

_____.  "Alice Allison Dunnigan: An African-American Woman Journalist Who
Broke the Double Barrier," Journalism History, Autumn-Winter 1989

Thomas, Helen.  Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times.  New York: Macmillan, 1999.

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LAW 

Berry, Dawn Bradley.   The 50 Most Influential Women in American Law.  Los Angeles: Lowell House, 1996.

Graham, Deborah.  Getting Down to Business: Marketing and Women Lawyers.  Little Falls: Glass LegalWorks, 1996.

Lentz, Bernard F.  Sex Discrimination in the Legal Profession.  Westport: Quorum Books, 1995.

Roberts, Marie Mulvey and Tamae Mizuta.  The Disempowered: Women and the Law.  London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1993.

Salokar, Rebecca Mae and Mary L. Volcansek.  Women in Law: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

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LITERATURE

Arnow, Harriet.  Mountain Path.  New York: McDowell Obolensky, 1936.

_____.  "A Mess of Pork." The New Talent, 1935.

_____.  Hunter's Horn.  New York: Macmillian, 1949.

_____.  The Dollmaker.  New York: Macmillian, 1954.

_____.  Seedtime on the Cumberland.  New York: Macmillian, 1960.

_____.  The Flowering of the Cumberland.  New York: Macmillian, 1963.

_____.  The Weed Killer's Daughter.  New York: Knopf, 1970.

_____.  The Kentucky Trace.  New York: Knopf, 1974.

_____.  Old Burnside.  Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1977.

_____.   Between the Flowers.  East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.

Boone, Joy Bale.  Contemporary Kentucky Poetry 1967.  Elizabethtown: Friends of Kentucky Libraries, 1967.

_____.  Never Less than Love. Louisville: Kentucky Poetry Press, 1972.

_____.  The Storm's Eye: A Narrative in Verse Celebrating Cassius Marcellus Clay, Man of Freedon, 1810-1903.  Louisville: Kentucky Poetry Press, 1974.

_____.  Even without Love. 1992.

Cheung, King-Kok, ed.  Words Matter:  Conversations with Asian American Writers. Honolulu:  University of Hawaii Press, 1999.

Derosier, Linda Scott.  Creeker: A Woman's Journey.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Dinsmore, Julia Stockton.   Verses and Sonnets.  Burlington: Dinsmore Homestead, 1991.

Dyer, Joyce, ed.  Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Giles, Janice Holt.  The Enduring Hills.  New York: Westminster Press, 1950.

_____.  Miss Willie.  New York: Westminster Press, 1951.

_____.  Tara's Healing.  New York: Westminster Press, 1951.

_____.  Forty Acres and No Mule.  New York: Westminster Press, 1952.

_____.  The Kentuckians.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1953.

_____.  Hill Man.  New York: Pyramid Books, 1954.

_____.  The Plum Thicket.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1954.

_____.  Hannah Fowler.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1956.

_____.  The Believers.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1957.

_____.  The Land Beyond the Mountains.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1958.

_____.  "Autobiographical Sketch," Kentucky Library Association Bulletin, 23 (Jan. 1959): pp. 12-13.

_____.  Johnny Osage.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1960.

_____.  Savanna.  New York: Avon Books, 1961.

_____.   Voyage to Santa Fe.  New York: Avon Books, 1962.

_____.  A Little Better Than Plumb.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1963.

_____.  Run Me a River.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1964.

_____.  The G.I. Journal of Sgt. Giles.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1965.

_____.  The Great Adventure.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1966.

_____.  Shady Grove.  New York: Avon Books, 1967.

_____.   Six Horse Hitch.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1968.

_____.  The Damned Engineers.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.

_____.  Around Our Home.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1971.

_____.  The Kinta Years.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1973.

_____.   Wellspring.  Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1975.

_____.   Hello Janice: The Wartime Letters of Henry Giles.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Gordon, Caroline.  Penally.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1931.

_____.  Aleck Maury, Sportsman.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1934.

_____.  None Shall Look Back. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1937.

_____.  The Garden of Adonis.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1937.

_____.   The Women on the Porch.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1944.

_____.   The Forest of the South.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1945.

_____.  The House of Fiction: An Anthology of the Short Story.  New York: Scribner, 1950.

_____.   The Strange Children.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952.

_____.  The Malefactors.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.

_____.   A Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford.  Davis: University of California Library, 1957.

_____.  How to Read a Novel.  New York: Viking Press, 1957.

______.  Old Red and Other Stories.  New York: Scribner, 1963.

______.  The Collected Stories of Caroline Gordon.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Girox, 1981.

_____.  Green Centuries.  Nashville: J.S. Sanders & Co., 1992.

Hall, Eliza Calvert.  Aunt Jane of Kentucky.  Lexington:  University Press of Kentucky, 1995 (1907).

hooks, bell.  Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism.  Boston: South End Press, 1981.

_____.  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center.  Boston: South End Press, 1984.

_____.  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black.  Boston: South End Press, 1989.

_____.  Yearning: Race, Class and Cultural Politics.  Boston: South End Press, 1990.

_____.   Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life.  Boston: South End Press, 1991.

_____.   Black Looks: Race and Representation.  Boston: South End Press, 1992.

_____.   Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery.  Boston: South End Press, 1993.

_____.   Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.  New York: Routledge, 1994.

_____.   Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representation.  New York: Routledge, 1994.

_____.   Art On My Mind: Visual Politics.  New York: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton, 1995.

_____.   Killing Rage: Ending Racism.  New York: H. Holt & Co., 1995.

_____.   Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.  New York: H. Holt & Co., 1996.

_____.   Reel to Real: Race, Sex & Class at the Movies.  New York: Routhledge, 1996.

_____.   Wounds of Passion: a Writing Life.  New York: H. Holt & Co., 1997.

_____.   Happy to be Nappy.  New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1999.

_____.   Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work.  New York: H. Holt & Co., 1999.

Jones, Gayl.  Corregidora.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.

_____.  Eva's Man.  New York: Random House, 1976.

_____.  The White Rat.  New York: Random House, 1977.

_____.  Song for Anninho.  Detroit: Lotus Press, 1981.

_____.  Hermit Woman.  Detroit: Lotus Press, 1983.

_____.  The Healing.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

_____.  Mosquito.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Kingsolver, Barbara.   The Bean Trees.  New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

_____.   Homeland and Other Stories.  New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

_____.   Holding the Line: Women and the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.  Ithaca: ILR Press, 1989.

_____.   Animal Dreams.  New York: Harper Collins, 1990.

_____.  Another America: Poems.  Seattle: Seal Press, 1991.

_____.   Pigs in Heaven.  New York: Harper Collins, 1993.

_____.   High Tide in Tucson.  New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.

_____.  The Poisonwood Bible.  New York: Harper Flamingo, 1998.

Makowsky, Veronica A.  Caroline Gordon: A Biography.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Mason, Bobbie Ann.  Midnight Magic: Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason.  Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1998.

_____.  The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide.  Old Westbury: Feminist Press, 1975.

_____.   Landscapes: Hunktown.  Frankfort: Frankfort Arts Foundation, 1984.

_____.  Coyotes.  New York:  New Yorker, 1988.

_____.  Spence + Lila.  New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

_____.  In Country.  New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

_____.  Love Life: Stories.  New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

_____.  Feather Crowns.  New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

_____.  Verenkransen.  Amsterdam: Anthos, 1994.

_____.  With Jazz.  Monterey: Larkspur Press, 1994.

_____.  Shiloh and Other Stories.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

_____.  Still Life With Watermelon.  Monterey: Larkspur Press, 1997.

_____.  Clear Springs: a Memoir.  New York: Random House, 1999.

Norman, Marsh.  Why Do Good Men Suffer?  Lexington: Kentucky English Bulletin, 1964.

_____.   Contract.  Lexington: Kentucky Educational Television, 1977.

_____.  Third and Oak, the Laundromat: A Play in One Act.  New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1980.

_____.   Getting Out.  New York: Avon Books, 1980.

_____.   Night Mother.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1983

_____.   The Fortune Teller.  London: Collins, 1988.

_____.  Four Plays.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1988.

_____.  Kentucky Voices a Bicentennial Celebration of Writing.  Louisville: Kentucky Center for the Arts, 1992.

_____.  The Secret Garden: Book and Lyrics.  New York: S. French, 1993.

Pierpoint, Claudia Roth.  Passionate Minds:  Women Rewriting the World.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Slone, Verna Mae.  Kitteneye Slone.  Pippa Passes: Pippa Valley Printing, 1976.

_____.  Common Folks.  Pikeville: Alice Lloyd College, 1978.

_____.   How We Talked.  Pippa Passes: Pippa Valley Printing, 1982.

_____.  Sarah Ellen.  Pippa Passes:  Pippa Valley Printing, 1982.

_____.  What My Heart Wants to Tell.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

_____.  Rennie's Way.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Smith, Effie.  Rosemary and Pansies.  Boston: The Gorham Press, 1909.

_____.   The Collected Works of Effie Waller Smith.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Walker, Alice.  In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens.  Orlando:  Harcourt Brace, 1967.

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MILITARY

Brodie, Laura Fairchild.  Breaking Out:  VMI and the Coming of Women.  New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

Enloe, Cynthia.  Maneuvers: International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2000.

Friedl, Vicki L.  Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Maisels, Amanda and Patricia M. Gormley. Women in the Military:  Where They Stand. Washington, D.C.: Women’s Research and Education Institute, 1994.

Manegold, Cynthia S.  In Glory’s Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel and a Changing America.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Defense,   The Tailhook Report.   New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Sherrow, Victoria.  Women and the Military: An Encyclopedia.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1996.

Thom, Deborah.  Nice Girls and Rude Girls:  Women Workers in World War I.  New York:  I. B. Tauris, 1999.

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MUSIC

Carter- Schwendler, Karen Lea.  Traditional Background, Contemporary Context: The Music and Activities of Jean Ritchie to 1977.  Lexington: s.n., 1995.

Clooney, Rosemary and Joan Barthel.   Girl Singer: An Autobiography.  New York: Doubleday, 1999.

Hull, Kenneth C.  Lily May, A Legend in Our Time.  New York: Carlton Press, 1975.

Judd, Naomi.  Love Can Build a Bridge.  New York: Villard Books, 1993.

Krishef, Robert.  Loretta Lynn.  Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1978.

Lynn, Loretta and Vecsey George.  Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter.  New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.

Ritchie, Jean.  Singing Family of the Cumberlands.  Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

______.  Jean Ritchie's Swapping Song Book.  Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.  

Rockhill Marketing.  Gateway to the Highlands, City Between the Lakes: Home of Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle, the Kentucky Apple Festival, 1850-1875.  Bardstown: Rockhill Marketing, 1997.

Romalis, Shelly.  Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Tucker, Sherrie.  Swing Shift:  “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940’s.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Turner, William L. and Gayle Pankey.  Face to Face With Country Music: A Diary of Interviews With Country Superstars of the 70s, 80s, and 90s.  Branson: Branson Publishing Co., 1994.

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PERFORMING ARTS

Anderson, Lisa M.  Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen.  Totowa, New Jersey: Rowan & Littlefield, 1997.

Levy, Maya.  Acting Scenes and Monologs for Young Women.  Colorado Springs: Meriwether Publishing, 1999.

Mair, George.  The Judds: The True Story of Naomi, Wynonna, and Ashley.  Secaucus, New Jersey: Birch Lane Press, 1998.

Neal, Patricia and Richard Deneut.  As I am: An Autobiography.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

Roberts, Robin.  Ladies First: Women in Music Videos.  Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1996.

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PIONEERS

Bell, Margaret.   Women of the Wilderness.  New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938.

Caudill, Harry M.  The Saga of Jenny Wiley.  Ashland: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994.

Cashin, Joan.   A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Hall, Mitchel C.  Jenny Wiley Country: A History of the Big Sandy Valley in Kentucky's Eastern Highlands and Genealogy of the Region's People.  Kingsport: Kingsport Press, 1979.

Kentucky Dept. of Parks.   Jenny Wiley State Resort Park.  Frankfort: Kentucky Dept. of Parks, 1993.

LaDuke, Winona.  All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge:  South End Press, 1999.

Pineau, Mary.  Pioneer People:  A Story of David, Kentucky. Pikeville: Executive Printing, 1977.

Roberts, Marie Mulvey and Tamae Mizuta.  The Pioneers: Early Feminists.  London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press Kinokuniya Company Ltd., 1993.

Schlissel, Lillian.  Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey.  New York: Schoken Books, 1982.

Taney, Mary Florence.   Kentucky Pioneer Women, Columbian Poems and Prose Sketches.   Cincinnati: Press of R. Clarke and Company, 1893.

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PUBLIC SERVICE

Alling, Charles.  "Women in Politics," The Register (Jan. 1906): 68-69.

Bingham, Clara and Diane L. Fowlkes.  White Political Women.  Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Braden, Maria.  Women Politicians and the Media.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Cromwell, Emma Guy.  Woman in Politics.  Louisville: Standard Printing Cp., 1939.

_____.  "Citizenship; A Manual for Voters."  Frankfort: Emma G. Cromwell, 1926.

Crowe-Carraco, Carol.  Women Who Made A Difference.  Kentucky Humanities Council- Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Gill, LaVerne McCain.  African American Women in Congress.  Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Hall, Wade.  Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Karnes, Frances, Ph.D. and Suzanne M. Bean, Ph.D.   Girls and Young Women Leading the Way: 20 True Stories about Leadership.  Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 1993.

Mandel, Ruth.  In the Running:  Women as Political Candidates.  New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1981.

Margolies- Mezinsky, Marjorie.  A Woman’s Place:  Freshmen Women Who Changed The Face of Congress.  New York: Crown Books, 1994.

Miller, Kristie.  "A Volume of Friendship: The Correspondence of Isabella Greenway and Eleanor Roosevelt 1904-1953" Journal of Arizona History (Summer 1999): vol. 40 num. 2.

Morton, Jennie C.  "Sketches of Distinguished Women" The Register  (May 1906): 45-50.

Peirce, Neal and Curtis Johnson.  Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age.  College Park: University of Maryland, 1997.

Powers, Georgia Davis.  I Shared the Dream: The Pride, Passion, and Politics of the First Black Senator From Kentucky.  Far Hills, New Jersey: New Horizon Press, 1995.

Scott, Anne Firor.  The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Sherman, Jonann.  No Place for a Woman:  Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Woods, Harriette.  Stepping Up to Power. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

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REFORM

Andersen, Kristi.  After Suffrage.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Baird, Nancy Disher and Carol Crowe-Carraco.  A "True Woman's Sphere":  Motherhood in Late Antebellum Kentucky, The Filson Club History Quarterly, (July 1992) Vol. 66, No. 3: 369-395.

Bingham, Sallie.  Passion and Prejudice:  A Family Memoir.  New York: Applause Books, 1991.

______.   Small Victories.  Cambridge: Zoland Books, 1992.

Braden, Anne.  The Wall Between.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston.  Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: A Leader in the New South.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921.

Brock, Loretta Gilliam.  A History of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky 1894-1994.  Lexington: The Woman's Club of Central Kentucky, 1996.

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan.  Meeting at the Crossroads:  Turning Points in Girls’ and Women’s Lives.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Cassidy, Carol.  Girls in America:  Their Stories, Their Words.  TV Books, 1999.

Collins, Patricia Ann.  Black Feminist Thought:  Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.  London: Harper Collins, 1990.

Cott, Nancy F. Jeannne Boyston, et al, eds.  Roots of Bitterness: Documents of Social History of American Women.  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Danquah, Meri Nana-ama, ed.  Becoming American:  Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women.  New York: Hyperion, 1999.

Dove, Rita.  On the Bus with Rosa Parks.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.

DuBois, Ellen Carol.  Woman Suffrage & Women’s Rights.  New York: New York University, 1998.

_____.  Feminism & Suffrage.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978 (reprinted with new Preface,1999)

Duffy, James.   Radical Red.  New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1993.

Ellison, Sheila.  The Courage to Be a Single Mother.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2000.

Epstein, Robin.  Citizen Power:  Stories of America's New Civic Spirit.  Lexington: Democracy Resource Center, 1999.

Evans, Sara.  Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left.  New York:  Knopf, 1979.

Flammang, Janet A.  Women’s Political Voice: How Women are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

Forderhase, Nancy.  "Eve Returns to the Garden: Women Reformers in Appalachian Kentucky in the Early Twentieth Century,"  Register 85 (Summer 1987): 337-61.

Fuller, Paul E.  Laura Clay and the Woman’s Rights Movement.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975.

Giesen, Carol A.B.  Coal Miners' Wives.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Gladney, Margaret Rose ed.  How Am I to be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Glaspell, Susan.  “A Jury of Her Peers,” in Edward J. O’Brien, ed., The Best Short Stories of  1971. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1971.

Goodman, Clavia.  Bitter Harvest: Laura Clay's Suffrage Work.  Lexington: Lexington Bur Press, 1946.

Gurko, Miriam.  Ladies of Seneca Falls.  New York: Schoken Books, 1974.

Hay, Melba Porter, "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: Her Roll in the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Movement, 1908-1920," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 72 (1974): 342-63.

_________.  "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Kentucky suffragist and Progressive Reformer."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1980.

________. "Suffragist Triumphant:  Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Nineteenth Amendment," The Register 93 (1995): 25-42.

Hewitt, Nancy and Suzanne Lebsock, eds..  Visible Women:  New Essays on American Activism.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Higginbotham, Elizabeth.  Integrating All Women into the Curriculum.  Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis, 1988.

Irvin, Helen Deiss.  Women in Kentucky.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979.

Jennings, Francis S.  "The History of Child Labor Legislation in Kentucky."  M.A. Thesis, University of Kentucky, 1926.

Kaufman, Polly Welts.   National Parks and the Woman's Voice:  A History.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.

Kerber, Linda K.  No Constitutional Right to be Ladies:  Women and the Obligations of Citizenship.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Knott, Claudia.  "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Kentucky, 1879-1920."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1989.

Lavis, Barbara.  The Kid’s Guide to Social Action.  Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 1999.

Lorde, Audre.  Sister Outsider.  New York: Crossing Press, 1984.

McNeil, W.K.  Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Nasstrom, Kathryn L.  Everybody’s Grandmother & Nobody’s Fool:  Frances Pauley and Struggle for Social Justice.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Outside the Magic Circle:  Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Perkins, Margo V.  Autobiography as Activism:  Three Black Women of the Sixties.  Oxford:  University Press of Mississippi.

Pershing, Linda.  The Ribbon around the Pentagon: Peace by Piecemakers.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, Publications of the American Folklore Society, New Series: 1996.

_____.  Sew to Speak: The Fabric Art of Mary Milne.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.

Reagon, Bernice Johnson. "Coalition Politics:  Turning the Century." In Home Girls--A Black Feminist Anthology (1983): 356-68.

Roby, Henry W.  The Suffrage Song Book: Original Songs, Parodies, and Paraphrases, Adapted to Popular Melodies.  Topeka: Crane & Company, 1909.

Roberts, Marie Mulvey and Tamae Mizuta.  The Militants: Suffragette Activism.  London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994.

Runyon, Randolph Paul.  Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Scott, Kesho Yvonne.  The Habit of Surviving: Black Women's Strategies for Life.  Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Sherman, Janann.  Perfect 36.  Binghamton: Iris Press, 1998.

Theriot, Janice.  Tradition of Service: A History of the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs.  Louisville: Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs, 1994.

Tobin, Jacqueline L. and Raymond G. Dobard, Ph.D.  Hidden in Plain View: Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.  New York:  Random House, 1999.

Walker, Melissa.  Down from the Mountains:  Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989.  New Haven: Yale University, 1991.

Weisenburger, Steven.  Modern Medea:  A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill.  "New Women of the New South:  Leaders of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in the Southern States, " Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia, 1989.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed.  Votes for Women!   Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Wood, Nancy.  Many Winters.  New York: Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1974.

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RELIGION

Bass, Dorothy and Sandra Hughes Boyd.  Women in American Religious History: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Sources.  Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986.

Boles, John B.  Religion in Antebellum Kentucky.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.1976.

Clark, Thomas C. and F. Gerald Ham.  Pleasant Hill and Its Shakers.  Harrodsburg: Pleasant Hill Press, 1968.

Keller, Rosemary Skinner and Rosemary Radford, ed.  In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.

Woolsey, Louisa.  Shall Women Preach?  Caneyville. 1891.

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SCIENCE

Altman, Linda Jacobs.  Women Inventors.  New York: Facts on File, 1997.

Ambrose, Susan.  Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.

Anderson, Lorraine.  Sisters of the Earth.  New York: Vintage Press, 1991.

Eisenhart, Margaret, and Elizabeth Finkel.  Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding From the Margins.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Greene, Gayle.  The Woman Who Knew Too Much:  Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Pattatucci, Angela.  Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges.  Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 1998.

Rayner-Canham, Marlene and Geoffrey.   A Devotion to their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity.  Philadephia: Chemical Heritage Foundation, 1997.

Rosser, Sue Vilhauer.  Re-Engineering Female Friendly Science.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.

Thimmesh, Catherine.  Girls Think of Everything:  Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Treichler, Paula A., Lisa Cartwright and Constance Penley.  The Visible Woman: Imaging Technologies, Gender and Science.  New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Wasserman, Elga.   The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science.  Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000.

Yount, Lisa.   A to Z of Women in Science and Math.  New York: Facts on File, 1999.

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SPORTS

Aebi, Tania.  Maiden Voyage.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.

Bandy, Susan and Anne Darden.  Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport.  Champaign: Human Kinetics, 1999.

Cohen, Greta L.  Women in Sport: Issues and Controversies.  Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1993.

Creedon, Pamela.  Women, Media, and Sport: Challenging Gender Values.  Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1994.

Dean, Penny Lee.  Open Water Swimming.  Champaign: Human Kinetics, 1998.

Festle, Mary Jo.   Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Johnson, Anne Janette.   Great Women in Sports.  Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996.

Joyner-Kersee, Jackie.  A Kind of Grace.  New York: Warner Books, 1997.

Lawler, Jennifer.  Martial Arts for Women: A Practical Guide.  Hartford: Turtle Press, 1998.

Longman, Jere.  The Girls of Summer: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team and How They Changed the World.  New York: Harper-Collins, 1999.

Salter, David.  Crashing the Old Boys' Network: The Tragedies and Triumphs of Girls and Women in Sports.  Westport: Praeger, 1996.

McEwen, Christian, ed.  Jo’s Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.

Olds, Ellizabeth Fagg.  Women of the Four Winds: 4 American First Explorers. Boston:  Houghton-Mifflin, 1985.

Sandoz, Joli.  A Whole Other Ball Game: Women's Literature on Women's Sport.  New York: Noonday Press, 1997.

Sherrow, Victoria.  Encyclopedia of Women and Sports.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1996.

Smith, Lisa ed.  Nike is a Goddess: History of Women Sports.  New York: Dalton Press, 1999.

Vargyas, Ellen J.   Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX.  Washington, D.C.: National Women's Law Center, 1994.

Zimmerman, Jean Reavill.  Raising our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls' Lives.  New York: Doubleday, 1998.  

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WOMEN’S HISTORY (Kentucky)

Baird, Nancy Disher and Carol Crowe-Carraco.  A "True Woman's Sphere":  Motherhood in Late Antebellum Kentucky, The Filson Club History Quarterly, (July 1992) Vol. 66, No. 3: 369-395.

Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt.  "Cora Wilson Stewart and The Illiteracy Crusade: 'Moonlight Schools' and Progressive Reform."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1996.

Birdwhistell, Terry L.  "An Educated Difference: Women at the University of Kentucky through the Second World War." Ed.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1994.

Breckinridge, Mary.  Wide Neighborhoods: The Story of the Frontier Nursing Service.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.

Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston.  Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: A Leader in the New South.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921.

Brock, Loretta Gilliam.  A History of the Woman's Club of Central Kentucky 1894-1994.  Lexington: The Woman's Club of Central Kentucky, 1996.

Byars, Lauretta.  Lexington's Colored Orphan Industrial Home: Building for the Future.  Lexington, Kentucky: I.B. Bold Publications, 1995.

Crowe-Carraco, Carol.  Women Who Made A Difference.  Kentucky Humanities Council- Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Clift, G. Glenn, ed.  The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl’s Diary of the Civil War…  Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1963.

Cromwell, Emma Guy.  Woman in Politics.  Louisville: Standard Printing Cp., 1939.

Dunnigan, Alice Allison.  The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians:  Their Heritage and traditions.  Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1982.

Darnell, Betty Rowling and Carolyn Elmore French.  Out of the Shadows:  History of Bullitt County Women.  Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Bullitt County Library District, 1994.

Forderhase, Nancy.  "Eve Returns to the Garden: Women Reformers in Appalachian Kentucky in the Early Twentieth Century,"  Register 85 (Summer 1987): 337-61.

Fuller, Paul E.  Laura Clay and the Woman’s Rights Movement.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975.

Goodman, Clavia.  Bitter Harvest: Laura Clay's Suffrage Work.  Lexington: Lexington Bur Press, 1946.

Hall, Wade.  Passing for Black: The Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Hartford, Ellen Ford.  Little White Schoolhouse.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky for the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, 1977.

Hay, Melba Porter, "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: Her Roll in the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Movement, 1908-1920," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 72 (1974): 342-63.

_________.  "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Kentucky suffragist and Progressive Reformer."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1980.

________. "Suffragist Triumphant:  Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Nineteenth Amendment," The Register 93 (1995): 25-42.

Irvin, Helen Deiss.  Women in Kentucky.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1979.

Jennings, Francis S.  "The History of Child Labor Legislation in Kentucky."  M.A. Thesis, University of Kentucky, 1926.

Kentucky African-American Heritage Commission.  Tapestry:  A Visitor's Guide to Kentucky's African-American Heritage.  Frankfort: Commonwealth of Kentucky, nd.

Kentucky Commission on Human Rights.  Kentucky's Black Heritage.  Frankfort: Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, 1971.

Kleber, James C.   Kentucky: Portrait in Progress: 1900-1950.  Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1992.

_____. ed.  The Kentucky Encyclopedia.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.

Knott, Claudia.  "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Kentucky, 1879-1920."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1989.

Lucas, Marion B.  A History of Blacks in Kentucky:  From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891.  Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1992.

Malone, Cherly Knott. "Louisville Free Public Library's Racially Segregated Branches, 1905-35,"  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 93 (1995): 159-79.

Marshall, Suzanne.   Violence in the Black Patch of Kentucky and Tennessee.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.

Nelms, Jr., Willie E.  "Cora Wilson Stewart and the Crusade Against Illiteracy in Kentucky" The Register  (Jan. 1976):10-29;(Spr. 1984):151-69.

Potter, Eugenia, ed.   Ken