Celebrating Women's History Month: Selected Readings on Women & Gender

For those who are members of a Book Club and/or are interested in a broader discussion of women and gender, Southern Cultures is celebrating Women's History Month by doubling the size of their online archive of material dedicated to Women & Gender. You can browse their expanded archive of essays and features on Women and Gender.

The online archive now includes these titles and much, much more:

Killers Real and Imagined
by Doris Betts
Real-life tragedy is the genesis for lasting art when the murder of Medgar Evers sparks the muse of Eudora Welty.

Women Working
photography and interviews by Susan Harbage Page
When Susan Harbage Page worked in the early seventies alongside the women in this photo essay, in addition to friendships she also made a poignant record:"‘Rough. It is rough being a female.'"

Mill Mother’s Lament: Ella May Wiggins and the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929
by Patrick Huber
“Ella May Wiggins, the ‘poet laureate’ of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929, was silenced by a mill thug’s bullet on September 14, 1929.”

Elna C. Green's
Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question
reviewed by Pamela Tyler

Pamela Tyler's
Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans, 1920-1963
reviewed by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler