Books in the Gender and American Culture series

Contains 17 personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The essays in this book show how - first as graduate students and then as professional historians - they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men.

This volume presents a portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), a leading southern white liberal of the mid-20th century. The author has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for the book, with subjects including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling.

A study of women in vaudeville. It reveals how female performers, patrons and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment at the turn of the century. Once a sign of vaudeville's refinement, Kibler says, women became associated with the decay of vaudeville.

Native American philosophy has enabled Native American cultures to survive more than five hundred years of attempted cultural assimilation. This revised edition has been expanded to include extensive discussion of Native American philosophy and culture in the United States as well as Canada.