In an era that glorified southern womanhood, especially the women who contributed significantly to the Confederate cause, this fascinating book, until now, somehow has been largely forgotten.

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Craig Claiborne (1920-2000) was a restaurant critic, food writer, and former food editor of the New York Times. A native Mississippian, he wrote numerous cookbooks and an autobiography.

A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. As a gay African American ...

M. Cynthia Oliver is associate professor of dance at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an award-winning choreographer whose dances focus on women, Caribbean culture, and mythology. Her work ...

The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles ...

Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims ...

Charles C. Stephenson Jr. is a political and cultural activist, the original manager of Experience Unlimited, cofounder of the Malcolm X Day Celebration, former chair of the D.C. Commission on the Arts ...