Speaking for ourselves : women of the South / edited by Maxine Alexander.

Other author Alexander, Maxine, 1944-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Pantheon Books, ©1984.
Descriptionxiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subjects
Women--Southern States. --Social conditions.

Contents Part I. Legacy : Mother Rich -- Celebrate Emma / Maudy Benz -- Legacy : Memories of our foremothers /rDee Gilbert -- Pipsissewa, Calamus, and Pennyroyal / Constance Garcia-Barrio -- Genealogy / Ruthann Robson -- Magnolias grow in dirt : The bawdy lore of southern women / Rayna Green -- Tribute to my husband / Mattie Mae Nelson -- Part II. Legacy : Good times and growing pains -- Corn shuckings, fiddle contests, square dances : Oral history with Lily May Ledford / Ellesa Clay High -- Growing up Southern and sexy / Marie Stokes Jemison -- Three maxims in the life of Mary / Mary Mebane -- My Aunt Isadora (fiction) / Amelia Diaz Ettinger -- The rape of Dona / Lee Howard -- Part III. A woman's work : Shoulder to shoulder -- Mill village / Clara D. Ford -- It seems to help me bear it better when she knows about it / Margaret Jones Bolsterli -- Ole black Emelda (fiction) / Luisah Teish -- Women in the Texas ILGWU, 1933-50 / Milissa Hield -- Shoulder to shoulder / Anne Braden -- Hard times cotton mill / Victoria Morris Byerly -- Are you looking, cousin / Regina M.K. Mandrell -- Part IV. A woman's work : Never done -- What she aims to be / Sue Massek -- Coal-mining women / Marat Moore -- If you got time to lean, you got time to clean / Alma Blount -- It's something inside you / Wendy Watriss -- Prostitution I : Trying to make a living / Phaye Poliakoff -- Prostitution II : Not no easy business / Sarah Wilkerson -- Tessa / Vivian M. oken -- Miss Elsie Riddick / Carmine Prioli -- Part V. Keeping mind, body, and soul together -- Dear Mary Catherine / Marilyn Sewell -- Paralyzed (fiction) / Lee Smith -- My Grandmother's gift / Glenda Neel Pender -- Quilting women / Jennifer Miller -- Two poems for Minnie's boy / Joycelyn K. Moody -- Spilled salt (fiction) / Barbara Neely -- Part VI. Where the heart is -- The prodigal child's homecoming : California to Georgia 1980 / Beverly Burch -- Swing through the South journal, Fall, 1981 / Battie Gossett -- Delta (fiction) / Ramina Y. Mays -- Speaking in tongues : A letter to Third World women writers / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Women's consciousness and the Southern Black Movement / Sara Evans -- Part VII. For the children's sake -- The challenge / Christina Davis -- Mock trial / Susan Bright -- The lonesomes ain't no spring picnic (fiction) / Birthalene Miller -- Queen of the road / Liz Wheaton -- Listen!! / Maxine Alexander -- I led two lives : Confessions of a closet Baptist / Mab Segrest -- There's not a child that can't learn / ebecca McCarthy.
Local noteEnclosed at page 190 are a Pantheon Books advertisement for Speaking for Ourselves: Women of the South (4 Sept. 1984), and a Pantheon Books, review copy slip with request for two copies of reviews (4 Sept. 1984). Paperback. Stuart Wright Book Collection #155.17. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Stuart Wright Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2011
Issued in other formOnline version: Speaking for ourselves. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, ©1984
LCCN 84007088
ISBN0394722752 (pbk.)
ISBN9780394722757 (pbk.)

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Joyner Stuart Wright Collection HQ1438.A13 S63 1984 ✔ Available Request Material