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Adams, Carolyn Hazlett.  1999.  “Aunt Molly Jackson: The Benefits and the Costs of Cussedness” [review essay of Pistol Packin’ Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong, by Shelly Romalis (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999)].  Appalachian Journal 26 (Spring): 264-273.

Alghrary, Becky I.  2002.  Mountain Magnolias: Women of Avery [Avery Co., N.C.; portraits of 14 mountain women; spans 100 years].  Banner Elk, N.C.: Puddingstone Press.  144 pp.

Allen, Nancy Kelly.  2008.  Ring the Silver Bell.  Louisville, Ky.: MotesBooks.  71 pp.   Adolescent literature; story of Alice Stone (b. 1904), Caney Creek, Ky., and her heroic quest for an education.

Anderson, Cynthia D., and Michael D. Schulman.  1999.  “Women, Restructuring, and Textiles: The Increasing Complexity of Subordination and Struggle in a Southern Community” [Fieldcrest Cannon; Kannapolis, N.C.].  In Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, ed. B. Smith, 91-108.  Women in the Political Economy series.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Anglin, Mary K.  1995.  “Lives on the Margin: Rediscovering the Women of Antebellum Western North Carolina.”  In Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century, ed. M. Pudup, D. Billings, A. Waller, 185-209. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Anglin, Mary K.  1998.  “Looking Beyond the Factory: Regional Culture and Practices of Dissent” [N.C.; women; Moth Hill Mica Co.].  In More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces, ed. A. Kingsolver, 53-72.  Albany: State University of New York Press.

Anglin, Mary K.  2002.  Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina [N.C.; mica plant; women, labor, and resistance].  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.  168 pp.

Anglin, Mary.  2000.  “Toward a Workable Past: Dangerous Memories and Feminist Perspectives.”  Journal of Appalachian Studies 6 nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall): 71-99.

Ansley, Fran, and Susan Williams.  1999.  “Southern Women and Southern Borders on the Move: Tennessee Workers Explore the New International Division of Labor” [U.S.-Mexico exchanges].  In Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, ed. B. Smith, 207-244.  Women in the Political Economy series.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Appelt, Kathi, and Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer.  2001.  Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky [Depression-era; juvenile literature].  New York: HarperCollins.  58 pp.

Baldwin, Fred D.  1999.  “Sarah’s Place: Transforming Lives” [Sarah’s Place Women’s Resource Center, Elliott Co., Ky.].  Appalachia: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission 32 (January-April): 30-35.

Baldwin, Fred D.  2004-2005.   “Leveraging Hope: The New Opportunity School for Women” [Berea, Ky.].  Appalachia Magazine: Journal of the Appalachian Regional Commission.  20 para.   http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3423.

Bean, Heather Ann Ackley.  2001.  Women, Music, and Faith in Central Appalachia.  Studies in Women and Religion, vol. 40.  Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.  236 pp.

Beatty, Bess.  2002.  “I Can’t Get My Bored on Them Old Lomes: Female Textile Workers in the Antebellum South.”  In Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, eds. S. Delfino and M. Gillespie, 249-260.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Beaver, Patricia D.  1999.  “Women in Appalachia and the South: Gender, Race, Region, and Agency.”  NWSA: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): ix-xxix.

Beaver, Patricia, ed.  1999.  “Appalachia and the South: Place, Gender, and Pedagogy” [10 papers]. Special issue, NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 1-171.

Beckwith, Karen.  1998.  “Collective Identities of Class and Gender: Working-Class Women in the Pittston Coal Strike” [Va.; 1990].  Political Psychology 19 (March): 147-167.

Bentley, Anna Briggs. 2002.  American Grit: A Woman’s Letters from the Ohio Frontier [Quaker; 1826-1870s].  Edited by Emily Foster. Ohio River Valley Series. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  344 pp.

Berkley, June Langford.  2005.  “Telling the Untold Stories.”  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 232-250.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Berthelot, Emily R., Troy C. Blanchard, and Timothy C. Brown.  2008.  “Scots-Irish Women and the Southern Culture of Violence: The Influence of Scots-Irish Females on High Rates of Southern Violence.”  Southern Rural Sociology  23, no. 2: 157-170.  http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/srsa/pages/TOCs/vol23-2.htm.

Best, Gary Dean.  1994.  Witch Hunt in Wise County: The Persecution of Edith Maxwell [1930s Va. murder trial given “feud” overtones; cf. Sharon Hatfield’s 2005 book, Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell]. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.  186 pp.

Bingman, Mary Beth.  1999.  “Women in Appalachian Community Organizations: Sites of Learning and Change”  [Va.; adult learners; from interviews].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 5 (Fall): 215-226.

Blackwell, Deborah L.  2003.  “A Murder in the Kentucky Mountains: Pine Mountain Settlement School and Community Relations in the 1920s” [teacher’s unsolved murder; female administrators confront Harlan Co. power structure].  In Searching for Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Centuries, eds. T. Appleton and A. Boswell, 196-217.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Boyd, Donald C.  2007.  “The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1936-1943.”  Libraries & the Cultural Record 42, no. 2 (May): 111-128.

Brooks, Shannon.  1999.  “Coming Home: Finding My Appalachian Mothers through Emma Bell Miles.”  NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 157-171.

Brown, Joyce Compton, and Les Brown.  2001.  “The Discourse of Food as Cultural Translation and Empowering Voice in Appalachian Women during the Outmigration Process.”  Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Fall): 315-329.

Burk, Martha.  2007.  “Bluegrass Liberation: Appalachian-Grown Bluegrass Music Remains a ‘Boys Club,’ but There’s Feminism at Its Roots and Women Topping Its Charts.” Ms., 1 July, 50-53.

Cashin, Joan E.  1995.  “Women in the Promised Land:  A Review Essay of Daughters of Canaan:  A Saga of Southern Women” [by Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995].  Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 93 (Winter): 79-85.

Couto, Richard A.  2003.  “It Takes a Pillage: Women, Work, and Welfare” [welfare reform; poverty; public policy].  Race, Gender & Class 10, no.1: 60-78.

Cummings, Lindsay B.  2005.  “Women and Appalachian Opera Houses: A Place in the Public Domain” [Oh., Pa., Ky., W.Va.].  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 124-136.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Cunningham, Mia.  2001.  Anna Hubbard: Out of the Shadows [1902-1986; Ohio; wife of Harlan Hubbard].  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  224 pp.

Davis, Emili, and Winnie Lovell.  1998.  “Winnie’s World” [interview with owner of first beauty parlor in Rabun Co., Ga.; b. 1912].  Foxfire Magazine 32 (Spring/Summer): 34-40.

Delfino, Susanna.  2002.  “Invisible Woman: Female Labor in the Upper South’s Iron and Mining Industries.”  In Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, eds. S. Delfino and M. Gillespie, 285-307.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Dublin, Thomas, and Walter Licht.  2000.  “Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970.”  Oral History Review 27 (Winter/Spring): 81-97.

Duff, Betty Parker.  2005.  “Stand By Your Man: Gender and Class Formation in the Harlan County Coalfields” [Ky.: Benham, Lynch, Cumberland].  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 152-169.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Dunaway, Wilma A.   2000.  “Women at Risk: Capitalist Incorporation and Community Transformation on the Cherokee Frontier.” In A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology, ed. T. Hall, 195-210.  Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.

Dunaway, Wilma A.  2008.  Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South.  New York: Cambridge University Press.  301 pp.  Contents: Introduction -- No gendered sisterhood: ethnic and religious conflict among Euroamerican women -- Not a shared patriarchal space: imperialism, racism, and cultural persistence of indigenous Appalachian women -- Not a shared sisterhood of subordination: racism, slavery, and resistance by Black Appalachian females -- Not even sisters among their own kind: the centrality of class divisions among Appalachian women -- The myth of male farming and women’s agricultural labor -- The myth of separate spheres and women’s nonagricultural labor -- Family as privilege: public regulation of non-patriarchal households -- Motherhood as privilege: patriarchal intervention into women’s reproductive labors.

Ebel, Julia Taylor.  2003.  Addie Clawson: Appalachian Mail Carrier [juvenile literature; story of first woman mail carrier in Boone, N.C.; 1930s].  Art by Sherry Jensen.  Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.  27 pp.

Edwards, Grace Toney, Mary Margaret Thompson, and M. Lynda Ely.  1996.  "Our Mothers' Voices: Narratives of Generational Transformation."  Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (Spring): 131-139.

Edwards, Pamela.  2008.  “West Virginia Women in World War II: The Role of Gender, Class, and Race in Shaping Wartime Volunteer Efforts.”  West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, new series, 2, no. 1 (Spring): 27-57.

Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.  2001.  “Wilma Dykeman and the Women of Appalachia: The Ecology of Mid-Century Environmental Activism” [French Broad river]. Women’s Studies Quarterly 29 (Spring/Summer): 155-169.

Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.  2001.  “Placing Their Feminism in the Southern Appalachian Mountains: Emma Bell Miles, Grace MacGowan Cooke, and the Roots of Ecological Feminism” [Spirit of the Mountains (1905); The Power and the Glory (1910)].  Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 20 (June): 11-31.

Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.  2005.  “Creating Appalachian Women’s Studies: Dancing Away from Granny and Elly May.” In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 1-19.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D., ed.  2005.  Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies [13 contributors, three sections: activism, class, space].  Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia.  Athens: Ohio University Press.  260 pp.

Farr, Sidney Saylor.  2003.  “New Opportunities for Appalachian Women” [New Opportunity School for Women, Berea, Ky., founded 1987 by Jane Stephenson].  Appalachian Journal 30 (Summer): 350-354.

Few, April L.  2005.  “The Voices of Black and White Rural Battered Women in Domestic Violence Shelters” [southwest Va.; 30 women interviewed].  Family Relations 54 (October): 488-500.

Fisher, Diane Gilliam.  1999.  Recipe for Blackberry Cake [poems; W.Va.].  Wick Poetry Chapbook, series 2, no. 6.  Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.  41 pp.

Flanigan, Beverly Olson.  2005.  “Appalachian Women and Language: Old and New Forms as Reflections of a Changing Image” [dialects: Upper Ohio Valley].  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 177-195.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Fonow, Mary Margaret.  1998.  “Protest Engendered: The Participation of Women Steelworkers in the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Strike of 1985.”  Gender & Society 12: 710-728.

Giesen, Carol A. B.  1995.  Coal Miners' Wives:  Portraits of Endurance.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  170 pp.

Gillespie, Michele.  2002.  “To Harden a Lady’s Hand: Gender Politics, Racial Realities, and Women Millworkers in Antebellum Georgia.”  In Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, eds. S. Delfino and M. Gillespie, 261-284.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Goehring, Susan.  1999.  “Sweeter Than the Flowers: Edith Baker of King Knob” [Ritchie Co. reminiscence; 1930s].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Fall): 50-55.

Grant, Judith.  2008.  Charting Women’s Journeys: From Addiction to Recovery.  Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality series.  Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books.  142 pp.   26 rural drug and alcohol addicts.

Greenwald, Maurine.  1996.  "Women and Pennsylvania Working-Class History."  [textiles, shoes, paper, iron, lumber]  Pennsylvania History 63 (Winter): 5-16.

Gugliotta, Angela.  2000.  “Class, Gender, and Coal Smoke: Gender Ideology and Environmental Injustice in Pittsburgh, 1868-1914” [antismoke activism].  Environmental History 5 (April): 165-193.

Guy, Roger.  2001.  “Identity, Pride, and a Paycheck: Appalachian and Other Southern Women in Uptown, Chicago, 1950-1970.”  Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Spring): 46-63.

Haberstich, David.  1997.  “Barbara Beirne’s Women of Southern Appalachia” [Smithsonian photographic exhibition].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 14 (Summer): 3-7.

Hall, Eula.  2001 [1999].  “If There’s One Thing You Can Tell Them, It’s that You’re Free” [domestic abuse; Appalachian Volunteers; Mud Creek Clinic, Ky.].  In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 191-199.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Harsh, Sharon Wilmoth.  2003.  “Win With Katie McGee” [profiles winner of first Girls’ State citizenship training school, summer, 1941].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 29 (Summer): 18-24.

Hatfield, Sharon.  2005.  Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell [1935 Wise Co., Va., murder trial and women’s injustice].  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press.  286 pp.  Weatherford Award winner for non-fiction.

Heyman, J. D., and Lauren Comander.  2003.  “A School for Appalachian Women Jump-starts Lives in Limbo” [Berea, Ky.; New Opportunity School for Women, “a crash course in self-esteem designed to jump-start the lives of Appalachian women”].  People Weekly, 18 August, 121-123.

Houk, Rose, and others.  2005.  The Walker Sisters of Little Greenbrier [Sevier Co., Tenn.; profile and photos of turn-of-century artifacts and folkways].  Gatlinburg, Tenn.: Great Smoky Mountains Association.  60 pp.

Hovanec, Evelyn.  2001.  Common Lives of Uncommon Strength: The Women of the Coal and Coke Era of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1880-1970 [oral histories; spouses of immigrant miners].  Uniontown, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University, Fayette Campus, Coal and Coke Heritage Center.  227 pp.

Howe, Barbara J.  2002.  “Patient Laborers: Women at Work in the Formal Economy of West(ern) Virginia.”  In Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, eds. S. Delfino and M. Gillespie, 121-151.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Howe, Barbara J.  2005.  “Urban Wage-Earning Women in a Rural State” [1830-1870 Wheeling, W.Va., employment options].  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 101-123.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Howe, Barbara.  2006.  “Practicing Medicine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wheeling: The Story of Dr. Eliza Clark Hughes” [1817-1882; the first woman to earn a M.D. degree (1860) in what is now W.Va.].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall): 7-35.

Howell, Benita J., and Judith Ivy Fiene.  2005.  “Designing Employee Assistance Programs for Appalachian Working-Class Women: The Alcohol and Stress Research Project.”  Chap. 11 in Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals, ed. S. Keefe, 247-264.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Howie, Irene B.  1999.  “Callie” [character profile of Howie’s grandmother].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Summer): 39-42.

Inman, Myra.  2000.  Myra Inman: A Diary of the Civil War in East Tennessee [b. 1845, d. 1914; social sphere in Cleveland, Bradley Co., Tenn.].  Edited by William R. Snell.  Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press.  395 pp.

Jensen, Joan M.  2000.  “Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: Historians and Rural Women” [blacks and whites].  In After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900, eds. K. Koons and W. Hofstra, 221-232. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Latimer, Melissa, and Ann M. Oberhauser.   2004.  “Exploring Gender and Economic Development in Appalachia” [tables; 2000 Census].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 10, no. 3: 269-291.

Latimer, Melissa.  2000.  “A Contextual Analysis of the Effects of Gender and Place on Workers’ Incomes” [national and Appalachian subsample].  Sociological Spectrum 20 (July-September): 345-356.

LeRoy, Dan.  2001.  “Rural Women on Welfare Facing Bleak Prospects” [Welch, W.Va.].  Women’s Enews 27 May 2001.  40 para. http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/562/context/archive/.

Lundy, Ronni.  2006.  “Silvy’s House” [octogenarian Silvy Nett’s house in Southwest Va.].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 22, no. 1 (Spring): 26-29.

Maggard, Sally Ward.  1994.  "Will the Real Daisy Mae Please Stand  Up?  A Methodological Essay on Gender Analysis in Appalachian  Research."  Appalachian Journal 21 (Winter): 136-150.

Maggard, Sally Ward.  1995.  “Gender and Schooling in Appalachia: Lessons for an Era of Economic Restructuring.”  In Appalachia and the Politics of Culture, ed. E. C. Fine.  Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 7: 140-151.  Johnson City: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services.

Maggard, Sally Ward.  1998.  “‘We’re Fighting Millionaires!’: The Clash of Gender and Class in Appalachian Women’s Union Organizing.”  In No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest, ed. K. Blee, 289-306.  New York: New York University Press.

Maggard, Sally Ward.  1999.  “Gender, Race, and Place: Confounding Labor Activism in Central Appalachia” [Pikeville, Ky.; 1972 hospital strike].  In Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, ed. B. Smith, 185-206.  Women in the Political Economy series.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Maggard, Sally Ward.  2001 [1999].  “Coalfield Women Making History” [Ky.; 1970s hospital and coal strikes].  In Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes, eds. D. Billings, G. Norman, and K. Ledford, 228-250.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  Originally published as Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes.

Marsh, Ben.  2007.  Georgia’s Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony.  Athens: University of Georgia Press.  253 pp.

Marshall, Grace.  2006.  “Essie” [profile of Essie Riggs, four-foot-nine and mother of thirteen; hardships and endurance; Coeburn, Wise Co., Va.].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 22, no. 1 (Spring): 34-36.

Martin, Darcy.  2002.  “Aunt Molly Jackson: The Perfect Miner’s Voice” [Mary Magdalene Garland, 1860-1960; folk singer].  Journal of American & Comparative Cultures 25 (Fall/Winter): 468-478.

Martini, Adrienne.  2006.  Hillbilly Gothic: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood [postpartum depression; Knoxville].  New York: Free Press.  224 pp.

Mattaliano, Jane.  1998.  “The First Miss West Virginia” [1923; Neva Jackson].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 24 (Summer): 20-25.

McCleary, Ann E.  2006.  “‘Seizing the Opportunity’: Home Demonstration Curb Markets in Virginia” [1930s Augusta Co., Va.; Shenandoah Valley].  In Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, eds. M. Walker and R. Sharpless, 97-134.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

McElroy, James T.  1999.  We’ve Got Spirit: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Cheerleading Team [Ky.; Greenup County High School].  New York: Simon & Schuster.

McInnis-Dittrich, Kathleen.  1997.  “An Empowerment-Oriented Mental Health Intervention with Elderly Appalachian Women: The Women’s Club” [Eastern Ky.].  Journal of Women and Aging 9 (nos.1-2): 91-105.

Miewald, Christiana E., and Eugene J. McCann.  2004. “Gender Struggle, Scale, and the Production of Place in the Appalachian Coalfields” [Ky.;  interviews with fourteen women].  Environment & Planning A, vol. 36, no. 6 (June): 1045-1064.

Miller, Tia.  2001.  “Aunt Jennie” [W.Va. banjoist Virginia Myrtle Ellis, 1900-1992].  Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness 6: 28-30.

Moore, Marat.  1996.  "Women Go Underground."  In The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. J. Laslett, 484-512.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Moore, Marat.  1996.  Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work.  Twaynes’s Oral History Series, no. 20.  New York: Twayne.  337 pp.

Newton, Roxanne.  2007.  Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists.  Studies in American Popular History and Culture.  New York: Routledge.  187 pp.

Norris, Randall, and Jean-Philippe Cypres.  1996.  Women of Coal.  [interviews, photographs]  Introductions by Denise Giardina, Nikki Giovanni, Jim Wayne Miller, and Helen M. Lewis, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.  128 pp.

O’Brien, Robert J.  1997.  “Persecution and Acceptance: The Strange History of Discrimination Against Married Women Teachers in West Virginia” [1930s; women forced out of teaching when they married].  West Virginia History 56: 56-75.

Oberhauser, Ann M.  1995.  "Towards a Gendered Regional Geography:  Women and Work in Rural Appalachia."  Growth and Change 26 (Spring): 217-244.

Oberhauser, Ann M.  1995.  "Gender and Household Economic Strategies in Rural Appalachia."  Gender, Place and Culture 2 (March): 51-70.

Oberhauser, Ann M.  2002.  “Relocating Gender and Rural Economic Strategies” [knitware; 60 home-based workers].  Environment and Planning A 34 (July): 1221-1237.

Oberhauser, Ann M.  2005.  “Scaling Gender and Diverse Economies: Perspectives from Appalachia and South Africa” [hegemony of global capitalism challenged].  Antipode 37 (5): 863-874.

Oberhauser, Ann M., Amy Pratt, and Anne-Marie Turnage.  2001.  “Unraveling Appalachia’s Rural Economy: The Case of a Flexible Manufacturing Network” [gendered economic strategies].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Spring): 19-45.

Oberhauser, Ann M., and Anne-Marie Turnage.  1999.  “A Coalfield Tapestry: Weaving the Socioeconomic Fabric of Women’s Lives” [W.Va.; informal economy].  In Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South, ed. B. Smith, 109-122.  Women in the Political Economy series.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Orr, Mabel Chappell; interview by Mary E. Lynn Drew.  “Heroic Women of the Southern Highlands” [1920s Robbinsville, Graham Co., N.C.; excerpt from oral history series in progress].  Appalachian Heritage 26 (Spring): 42-45.

Pearson, Nelda K.  1999.  “Empowerment and Disempowerment of Women in Central Appalachia, U.S.A.”  In Democratization and Women’s Grassroots Movements, eds. J. Bystydzienski, J. Sekhon, 328-351.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Pendarvis, Edwina.  2003.  “At the Edge of the Past: Jenny Wiley’s Story and Its Relevance Today” [1789 Indian captivity; POW Jessica Lynch].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 20, nos. 2-3 (Summer/Winter): 13-17.

Peterson, Angela Marsh.  2005.  One Woman’s Century: The Remarkable Story of Angela Marsh Peterson, 1902-2000.  Edited by Kevin J. Todeschi.  `Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.  243 pp.

Puckett, Anita.  1992.  “‘Let the Girls Do the Spelling and Dan Will Do the Shooting’: Literacy, the Division of Labor, and Identity in a Rural Appalachian Community” [Ky.].  Anthropological Quarterly 65 (July): 137-147.  Special issue: Negotiating Identity in Southeastern U.S. Uplands.

Ramey, Jennifer.  1996.  “Nanny: An Interview With Clara Mae Ramey” [Rabun Co., Ga.; reminiscences].  Foxfire Magazine 30 (Fall/Winter): 141-152.

Rasmussen, Barbara.  2007.  “Food and Rebellion in Monroe County: Recalling Georgia Wickline” [1904-1995, the author’s grandmother].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 3 (Fall): 40-45.

Reed, Wendy, and Jennifer Horne, eds.  2006.  All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.  198 pp.  Contents: That old-time religion / Shirley Abbott -- This is our world / Dorothy Allison -- Why Jesus loved whores / Vicki Covington -- Awakening / Sue Monk Kidd -- The making of a preacher’s wife / Cassandra King -- Knowing our place / Barbara Kingsolver -- Relics of summer / Frances Mayes -- From Birmingham to redemption / Diane McWhorter -- Full circle / Pauli Murray -- When woods are dark: the enchantment of the infinite / Sena Jeter Naslund -- Sex, race, and the stained-glass window / Sylvia Rhue -- Becoming a cantor / Jessica Roskin -- I lead two lives: confessions of a closet Baptist / Mab Segrest -- Interview with Lee Smith / Susan Ketchin -- Where the spirit moved me / Jeanie Thompson -- A Baptist-Buddhist / Jan Willis.

Reichart, Karaleah S.  2001. “Narrating Conflict: Women and Coal in Southern West Virginia” [ethnographic interviews].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Spring): 6-18.

Resor, Cynthia Williams.  2007.  “A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen: Changing Productivity and Gender Expectations” [Eastern Kentucky University].  Southern Rural Sociology 22, no. 1: 98-109.

Rice, Connie Park.  2006.  “‘Shepherdess of the Hills’: The Salvation Army Mountain Ministry of Cecil Brown” [N.C.; first Salvation Army mission in Appalachia, 1935].  In Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, eds. M. Walker and R. Sharpless, 200-225.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Rieff, Lynne.  2006.  “Revitalizing Southern Homes: Rural Women, the Professionalization of Home Demonstration Work, and the Limits of Reform, 1917-1945” [Alabama].  In Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century, eds. M. Walker and R. Sharpless, 135-165.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Roberts, Ronald, and Carol Cooke-Roberts.  1998.  Mother Jones and Her Sisters: A Century of Women Activists in the American Coal Fields.  Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.  290 pp.

Romalis, Shelly.  1998.  Pistol Packin’ Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong [Ky. midwife, labor activist, songwriter; 1880-1960].  Music in American Life.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.  264 pp.

Ross, Paul E.  1995.  "Annie Oakley and the Hillbilly Jinx."   Appalachian Journal 22 (Winter): 262-275.

Sale, Anna.  2007.  “Sisters in Coal: A History of Women in the West Virginia Mines.”  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 33, no. 1 (Spring): 10-17.

Savage, Carletta Harvey.  1999.  “Women Coal Miners: Another Chapter in Central Appalachia’s Struggle Against Hegemony, 1973-1998” [sexual harassment].  M.A. thesis, West Virginia University.  114 pp.  Masters Abstracts International 37: 1687.   http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=576.

Savage, Carletta.  2000.  “Re-gendering Coal: Female Miners and Male Supervisors.”   Appalachian Journal 27 (Spring): 232-248.

Seitz, Virginia Rinaldo.  1995.  Women, Development, and Communities for Empowerment in Appalachia.  SUNY Series in Gender and Society.  Albany: State University of New York Press.  288 pp.

Shaw, Moira P.  2005.  “From Every Mountainside, Let Freedom Ring: A Transnational Feminist Journey through the Experiences of West Virginian and Bolivian Mountain Women.”  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 196-211.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Smith, Barbara Ellen, ed.  1999.  Neither Separate Nor Equal: Women, Race, and Class in the South [13 essays: 7 Appalachian].   Women in the Political Economy series. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.  286 pp.

Smith, Barbara Ellen.  1998.  “Walk-Ons in the Third Act: The Role of Women in Appalachian Historiography” [feminist approach needed].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (Spring): 5-28.

Smith, Barbara Ellen.  1999.  “‘Beyond the Mountains’: The Paradox of Women’s Place in Appalachian History.”  NWSA Journal: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 1-17.

Smith, Karen Cecil.  2003.  Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife, 1844-1939 [Blue Ridge Va.].  Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.  166 pp.

Smith, Margaret Supplee, and Emily Herring Wilson.  1999.  North Carolina Women: Making History [essays, biographies; prehistory to WWII].  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.  382 pp.

Sohn, Katherine Kelleher.  2003.  “Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College” [eight women: literacy; self-confidence; identity].  College Composition and Communication 54 (February): 423-52.

Sohn, Katherine Kelleher.  2006.  Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College [Eastern Ky.; case studies of three women].  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.  176 pp.  Based on the author’s 1999 dissertation of the same title.

Spatig, Linda, Laurel Parrott, Carolyn Carter, Marian Keyes, and Pat Kusimo.  2001.  “We Roll Deep: Community and Resistance in the Lives of Appalachian Girls” [W.Va.; eight voices/social-structural models; urban and rural, including African American ].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 7 (Spring): 64-92.

Speer, Jennie, and Ann Speer.  2000.  Sisters of Providence: The Search for God in the Frontier South (1843-1858) [diaries; Providence, N.C.].  Edited by Allen Paul Speer and Janet Barton Speer.  Johnson City, Tenn.: Overmountain Press.  290 pp.

Steadman, Jennifer Bernhardt, Elizabeth Engelhardt, Frances Smith Foster, and Laura Micham.  2002.  “Archive Survival Guide: Practical and Theoretical Approaches for the Next Century of Women’s Studies Research” [Engelhardt focus on Appalachian Native- and African-American women].  Legacy 19, no. 2: 230-240.

Steele, Virginia.  1999.  “‘Good for the Soul’: Gladys Larew at 100" [profile; Monroe Co.].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Summer): 40-47.

Stephens, Carol C.  2005.  “Culturally Relevant Preventive Health Care for Southern Appalachian Women.”  Chap. 9 in Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals, ed. S. Keefe, 197-217.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Storrs, Landon R. Y.  2003.  “Gender and Sectionalism in New Deal Politics: Southern White Women’s Campaign for Labor Reform” [textile industry].  In Searching for Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Centuries, eds. T. Appleton and A. Boswell, 218-237.  Southern Women.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Strong, Cliffie.  2004.  Strong Survival: The Life and Times of a Mountain Woman [Owsley Co., Ky.; biography; case study].  Hagerhill, Ky.: Christian Appalachian Project.  104 pp.

Tallichet, Suzanne E.  1998.  “Moving Up Down in the Mine: The Preservation of Male Privilege Underground” [from interviews with ten women coal miners].  In More Than Class: Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces, ed. A. Kingsolver, 124-147.  Albany: State University of New York Press.

Tallichet, Suzanne E.  2000.  “Barriers to Women’s Advancement in Underground Coal Mining.”  Rural Sociology 65 (June): 234-252.

Tallichet, Suzanne E.  2006.  Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia [W.Va.; sex discrimination; interviews with 14 women; 1990s].  Rural Studies Series.  University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.  210 pp.

Tice, Karen W.  1998.  “School-Work and Mother-Work: The Interplay of Maternalism and Cultural Politics in the Educational Narratives of Kentucky Settlement Workers, 1910-1930" [Lucy Furman and Ethel deLong].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (Fall): 191-224.

Tyler-McGraw, Marie; photographs by Gary Simmons.  1999 [1977].  “Mother’s Day Revisited” [Grafton, W.Va.; home of Mother’s Day founder Anna Jarvis].  Goldenseal: West Virginia Traditional Life 25 (Spring): 10-17.  Reprint, originally published vol. 3, no. 4.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.  2001.  The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth.  New York: Knopf.  501 pp.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher.  2001.  The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth [19th-century New England; applicable to Appalachia].  New York: Knopf.  501 pp.

VanLandingham, Frances Henson.  2003.  Back on Nowhere Road [Tenn., autobiography].  Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.  168 pp.

Walker, Melissa, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds.  2006.  Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century [ten essays].  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.  294 pp.

Walker, Melissa, ed.  2004.  Country Women Cope with Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories [16 oral histories; East Tenn., S.C.].  Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South, no. 20.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.  208 pp.

Walker, Melissa.  2000.  All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941.  Revisiting Rural America series.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.  344 pp.

Walker, Melissa.  2003.  “The Changing Character of Farm Life: Rural Southern Women.”  In Southern Women at the Millennium: A Historical Perspective, eds. M. Walker, J. R. Dunn, and J. P. Dunn, 145-175.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press.

Warren, Sarah T.  2002.  “One Step Further: Women’s Access to and Control Over Farm and Forest Resources in the U.S. South.”  Southern Rural Sociology 19, no. 2:  94-113.

Watkins, Charles Alan.  1999.  “Weaving Day at Penland: A Photographic Analysis” [Bayard Wootten photos; 1920s].  NWSA: A Publication of the National Women’s Studies Association 11 (Fall): 18-23.

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Weissman, Karen Hyde.  2005. “Property and Gender in the Inheritance Patterns of a Southern Appalachian Community: Boone County, West Virginia, 1865-1924” [reviews recorded wills, property distribution].  Journal of Family History 30 (January): 48-65.

Williamson, Celia.  2005.  “Appalachian Women and Poverty: Work in the Underground Economy” [prostitution: Toledo, Ohio, 1970s-1990s].  In Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women’s Studies, ed. E. Englehardt, 137-151.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Willis, Stacey M.  1998.  “‘Recovering from My Own Little War’: Women and Domestic Violence in Rural Appalachia” [W.Va.; case study].  Journal of Appalachian Studies 4 (Fall): 255-270.

Wolensky, Kenneth C., and Robert P. Wolensky.  1999.  “Against the Odds: Min Matheson and the ILGWU”  [Minnie Lurye Matheson, union leader; 1940s Wyoming Valley, Pa.; International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union].  Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine 16 (Summer): 22-27.

Wolfe, Margaret Ripley.  1998.  “The Feminine Dimension in the Volunteer State.”  In Tennessee History: The Land, The People, and the Culture,  ed. C. Van West, 29-55.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.