North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers tha

The only book that recognizes the influence of women in the making of North Carolina, from prehistory through World War II. By recovering the diversity of women

Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women_in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their

In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War