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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

by Jennifer Horne

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361365

Pub Date: January 2024

Format: Paperback

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own

The Case for Single Motherhood

Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations

by Katherine Elizabeth Mack

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817361129

Pub Date: December 2023

Format: Paperback

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations

Written in the Sky

Lessons of a Southern Daughter

by Patricia Foster

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780817360962

Pub Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide

Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials

How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917–1945

by Allison S. Finkelstein

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817361211

Pub Date: September 2023

Format: Paperback

Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I

From Mammies to Militants

Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

by Trudier Harris

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817394646

Pub Date: April 2023

Format: eBook

Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new...

Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

by Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817321451

Pub Date: January 2023

Format: Hardcover

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight

Becoming Catawba

Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840

by Brooke M. Bauer

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817321437

Pub Date: November 2022

Format: Hardcover

The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation

The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston

by Maria Elizabeth Ausherman

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817360511

Pub Date: August 2022

Format: Paperback

An illustrated account of the life and work of the pioneering photographer

Desert Rose

The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King

by Edythe Scott Bagley

Contributions by Joe Hilley

Afterword by Bernice King

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817360429

Pub Date: December 2021

Format: Paperback

Details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education

Corporal Rhetoric

Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era

by Barbara Schneider

Price: $54.95

ISBN: 9780817320959

Pub Date: August 2021

Format: Hardcover

Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state’s right to regulate women’s bodies and their reproduction

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