We’ve curated a selection of our books focusing on women’s history in the South. Browse our books to learn more about the development of southern women’s history, the lives of women in the South, and the stories of women who fought for racial justice in the twentieth century, among other topics.
Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice
Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century
They Dared to Dream
Florida Women Who Shaped History
Janet Reno
A Life
Alive in Their Garden
The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom
The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez
Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture
It's Our Movement Now
Black Women’s Politics and the 1977 National Women’s Conference
Sisterly Networks
Fifty Years of Southern Women's Histories
Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
The Daughters of the American Revolution and Patriotic Memory in the Twentieth Century
Dixie's Daughters, with a New Preface
The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
Nurses Among the Florida Seminole and Miccosukee, 1934–1971
The Public Health Nurses of Jim Crow Florida
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, Revised and Expanded Edition
African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
The Silencing of Ruby McCollum
Race, Class, and Gender in the South
Unlikely Dissenters
White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920–1970
Saving Florida
Women's Fight for the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Making Waves
Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida
Marjorie Harris Carr
Defender of Florida's Environment
Crossing the Line
Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II
Freedom for Women
Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970
The Varieties of Women's Experiences
Portraits of Southern Women in the Post–Civil War Century
The Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno
Miami's Trailblazing Journalist