Description: 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.
Brief description: MELISSA A. MCEUEN is professor of history at Transylvania University. She is the author of the award-winning Seeing America: Women Photographers between the Wars and Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945 (Georgia).
Review Quotes: The breadth of coverage, whether calculated by the women studied, methodological approaches, chronological eras, or discipline, is remarkable.--Lorri Glover "author of Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries"