Mississippi Women's
History and Literature Conference

Wednesday, March 8, 2006
MUW Carrier Chapel, 1:00pm-5:00pm

1:00   WELCOME

Bridget Smith Pieschel and Anne Goodwyn Jones

1:15  Presenter Nancy Bercaw
University of Mississippi

"Feminism and Freedom: How Former Slaves Defined Women's Rights"

http://olemiss.edu/depts/history/faculty/bercaw.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=br_ss_hs/102-9959387-0619300?search-alias=aps&keywords=nancy%20bercaw

2:00  Presenter Martha Swain
Emerita, Texas Woman's University

“Two Leaders of the Class of ’25 and their Crusade for
Women’s Rights and World Peace”

 http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/admin/news/mhsmeeting_06.html

 http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/Spring2006/Books/Shawhan_Lucy.html

 http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/alumnus/spring.95/34_swain.htm

2:45  Presenter Elizabeth Payne
University of Mississippi

"'How did you get these pictures of my sisters?'" 
 Women's Activism during the Depression Era."

http://olemiss.edu/depts/history/faculty/paynee.html

http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/FMPro?-DB=Testdbwebsite.fp5&-Lay=Layout_1&-Format=books_details.html&-Token.1=American%20History&-Token.2=Biography%20OR%20Autobiography%20&-Token.3=Women's%20Studies&-Token.4=&-RecID=43190&-Find 

3:30  Presenter Dorothy Shawhan
Delta State University

"Writing It Twice: Two Mississippi Women in History and Fiction."

http://www.deltastate.edu/pages/2000.asp

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-9959387-0619300?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dorothy+shawhan&Go.x=9&Go.y=8

4:15  Presenter Joan Wylie Hall
University of Mississippi

"'Woman-in-Process': From Greenwood to the Gulf
 with Mildred Spurrier Topp and Natasha Trethewey."

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/people/instructors/bios/hall_joan_main.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-9959387-0619300?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=joan+wylie+hall&Go.x=9&Go.y=5

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/spring2004/audre_lorde.html