Women's Studies

Affect and Power: Essays on Sex, Slavery, Race, and Religion

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons

At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry

Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music

Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers

Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters

Canadian Women Writing Fiction

Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture

Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature

Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism

Doubled Plots: Romance and History

The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples'

Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal Advocate for Women

Falling Through Space: The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist

Faulkner and Gender

Faulkner and Women

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston

Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers

Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade

Gender and the Southern Body Politic

Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism

Interviews with Betty Friedan

Justice Older than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember

Kewpies and Beyond: The World of Rose O'Neill

Ladies First: Women in Music Videos

Ladies of Soul

Losing Malcolm: A Mother's Journey Through Grief

Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole

Manners and Southern History

Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics

Mass Media and the Shaping of American Feminism, 1963-1975

Me: A Book of Remembrance

Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities

Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s

Return to Dresden

Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left

Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954

Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicles of a Modern Woman

Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Shaping Our Mothers' World: American Women's Magazines

Southern Belle

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer To Tell It Like It Is

Tallulah: My Autobiography

Threading the Generations: A Mississippi Family's Quilt Legacy

Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930

Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement

Walking on Air: The Aerial Adventures of Phoebe Omlie

A Web of Relationship: Women in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman

What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination

Witnessing

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965

The Writing Life

Writing Women's History: A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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