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In more than two hundred years of statehood, most Kentucky women have been invisible to history. Yet from the first settlement, women have been prominent contributors to Kentucky history and culture. Women in Kentucky tells the stories of the ordinary women of lonely frontier farms, the women both black and white whose lives were shaped by slavery, and the laboring women of the factories and shops in rising urban centers. Helen Deiss Irvin also profiles the exceptional Kentucky women whose lives became 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 on the active and full participation of women in Kentucky's long and storied history.

Helen Deiss Irvin is Chairman of the Division of Humanities at Transylvania University.

Publication Date

1979

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky.

Place of Publication

Lexington, KY

ISBN

9780813193458

eISBN

9780813150659

Keywords

Kentucky, Kentucky women, Suffragists

Disciplines

Women's History

Women in Kentucky
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