Women in Kentucky (Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf)

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In more than 2 hundred years of statehood, so much Kentucky women have been invisible to history. Yet from the primary settlement, women have been prominent contributors to Kentucky history and culture. Women in Kentucky tells the stories of the bizarre women of lonely frontier farms, the ladies both black and white whose lives were shaped by slavery, and the laboring women of the factories and stores in rising urban centers. Helen Deiss Irvin also profiles the outstanding Kentucky women whose lives become more visible: abolitionist Delia Webster, suffragists Laura Clay and Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, philanthropists Mary Breckinridge and Linda Neville, reformer Carry Nation, scholar and educator Sophonisba Breckinridge, and physician Louise Gilman Hutchins. Women in Kentucky casts a new light at the active and full participation of ladies in Kentucky’s long and storied history.

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