TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Maxine TI - Speaking for ourselves: women of the South SN - 0394722752 (pbk.) : AV - HQ1438.A13 S63 1984 U1 - 305.4/0975 19 PY - 1984/// CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books KW - Women KW - Southern States KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Legacy : Mother Rich --; Celebrate Emma; Maudy Benz --; Legacy : Memories of our foremothers /rDee Gilbert --; Pipsissewa, Calamus, and Pennyroyal; Constance Garcia-Barrio --; Genealogy; Ruthann Robson --; Magnolias grow in dirt : The bawdy lore of southern women; Rayna Green --; Tribute to my husband; Mattie Mae Nelson --; Part II. Legacy : Good times and growing pains --; Corn shuckings, fiddle contests, square dances : Oral history with Lily May Ledford; Ellesa Clay High --; Growing up Southern and sexy; Marie Stokes Jemison --; Three maxims in the life of Mary; Mary Mebane --; My Aunt Isadora; (fiction); Amelia Diaz Ettinger --; The rape of Dona; Lee Howard --; Part III. A woman's work : Shoulder to shoulder --; Mill village; Clara D. Ford --; It seems to help me bear it better when she knows about it; Margaret Jones Bolsterli --; Ole black Emelda; (fiction); Luisah Teish --; Women in the Texas ILGWU, 1933-50; Milissa Hield --; Shoulder to shoulder; Anne Braden --; Hard times cotton mill; Victoria Morris Byerly --; Are you looking, cousin; Regina M.K. Mandrell --; Part IV. A woman's work : Never done --; What she aims to be; Sue Massek --; Coal-mining women; Marat Moore --; If you got time to lean, you got time to clean; Alma Blount --; It's something inside you; Wendy Watriss --; Prostitution I : Trying to make a living; Phaye Poliakoff --; Prostitution II : Not no easy business; Sarah Wilkerson --; Tessa; Vivian M. oken --; Miss Elsie Riddick; Carmine Prioli --; Part V. Keeping mind, body, and soul together --; Dear Mary Catherine; Marilyn Sewell --; Paralyzed; (fiction); Lee Smith --; My Grandmother's gift; Glenda Neel Pender --; Quilting women; Jennifer Miller --; Two poems for Minnie's boy; Joycelyn K. Moody --; Spilled salt; (fiction); Barbara Neely --; Part VI. Where the heart is --; The prodigal child's homecoming : California to Georgia 1980; Beverly Burch --; Swing through the South journal, Fall, 1981; Battie Gossett --; Delta; (fiction); Ramina Y. Mays --; Speaking in tongues : A letter to Third World women writers; Gloria Anzaldúa --; Women's consciousness and the Southern Black Movement; Sara Evans --; Part VII. For the children's sake --; The challenge; Christina Davis --; Mock trial; Susan Bright --; The lonesomes ain't no spring picnic; (fiction); Birthalene Miller --; Queen of the road; Liz Wheaton --; Listen!!; Maxine Alexander --; I led two lives : Confessions of a closet Baptist; Mab Segrest --; There's not a child that can't learn; ebecca McCarthy UR - http://www.archive.org/details/speakingforourse00alex UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2845035M ER -