{"product_id":"kentucky-women-melissa-a-mceuen-9780820344539","title":"Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKentucky Women: Their Lives and Times\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky's role in political and social reform, education, health care, the arts, and cultural development. The collection features women with well-known names as well as those whose lives and work deserve greater attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShawnee chief Nonhelema Hokolesqua, western Kentucky slave Matilda Lewis Threlkeld, the sisters Emilie Todd Helm and Mary Todd Lincoln, reformers Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and Laura Clay, activists Anne McCarty Braden and Elizabeth Fouse, politicians Georgia Davis Powers and Martha Layne Collins, sculptor Enid Yandell, writer Harriette Simpson Arnow, and entrepreneur Nancy Newsom Mahaffey are covered in \u003ci\u003eKentucky Women\u003c\/i\u003e, representing a broad cross section of those who forged Kentucky's relationship with the American South and the nation at large. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith essays on frontier life, gender inequality in marriage and divorce, medical advances, family strife, racial challenges and triumphs, widowhood, agrarian culture, urban experiences, educational theory and fieldwork, visual art, literature, and fame, the contributors have shaped a history of Kentucky that is both grounded and groundbreaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melissa a. McEuen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820344532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820344539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Melissa a. McEuen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44634256834815,"sku":"9780820344539","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50836185-a309-410e-8dec-e8fd38496bb5.jpg?v=1703588365","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kentucky-women-melissa-a-mceuen-9780820344539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}