MINOR – Celebrating our most rambunctious women
Despite Mississippi’s gender glass ceiling, possibly the nation’s most impenetrable for women, some Mississippi women, even in pre-Civil War days, have excelled in the public arena against the shackles designed to hold them back.
“Mississippi Women…Their history, Their Lives,” published by the University of Georgia Press, singles out 17 of those women in a collection of essays edited by three women well known in higher learning circles as part of the Mississippi Women’s History Project.
From Winnie Davis, the feisty, intellectually curious daughter of Jefferson and Varina Davis, to courageous weekly newspaper editor Hazel Brannon Smith, of Lexington you learn fascinating unknown details of how they kept their roots in Southern womanhood while standing their ground against domination by the man’s world.
Desoto Times
5/12/10
Magnolia Tribune
