Includes bibliographical references and index.

The indomitable women of the Creek Removal Era: "Some one must have told her that I meant to run away with her" / Christopher D. Haveman -- Augusta Evans Wilson: America's forgotten best-selling author / Susan E. Reynolds -- The Townsend family: African American female "voice" and interracial ties / Sharony Green -- The enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Sims in antebellum Alabama: sisterhood of shared suffering / Harriet E. Amos Doss -- Maria Fearing: domestic adventurer / Kimberly D. Hill -- Julia S. Tutwiler: the burdens of paternalism and race / Paul M. Pruitt Jr. -- Margaret Murray Washington: a southern reformer and the Black Women's Club Movement / Sheena Harris -- Pattie Ruffner Jacobs: personal anxiety, political triumph / Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard -- Ida E. Brandon Mathis: the one-crop system and the limits of progressive economic reform / Rebecca S. Montgomery -- Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and Sara Martin Mayfield: "Alabama modern" / Rebecca Cawood McIntyre -- Ruby Pickens Tartt: composing a new score / Tina Jones -- Bess Bolden Walcott: a legacy of women's leadership at Tuskegee Institute / Caroline Gebhard -- Lebanese, Italian, and Slavic immigrant women in metropolitan Birmingham: "Just mud roads" / Staci Glover -- Margaret Charles Smith: lessons from midwifery / Jenny M. Luke -- Virginia Foster Durr: "The liberation of pure white southern womanhood" / Patricia Sullivan -- Rosa Parks: "I don't know whether I could have been more effective ... in the South than I am here in Detroit" / Jeanne Theoharis -- Lurleen Burns Wallace: making her way in Wallace country / Susan Youngblood Ashmore -- Harper Lee: To kill a mockingbird and "a good woman's words" / Nancy Grisham Anderson.