pAnother addition to the Southern Women series, iAlabama Womeni celebrates women's histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieux of women's lives in Alabama. pFeatured individuals include Augusta Evans Wilson, Maria Fearing, Julia S. Tutwiler, Margaret Murray Washington, Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, Ida E. Brandon Mathis, Ruby Pickens Tartt, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sara Martin Mayfield, Bess Bolden Walcott, Virginia Foster Durr, Rosa Parks, Lurleen Burns Wallace, Margaret Charles Smith, and Harper Lee. pbContributors bbr-Nancy Grisham Anderson on Harper Leebr-Harriet E. Amos Doss on the enslaved women surgical patients of J. Marion Simsbr-Wayne Flynt and Marlene Hunt Rikard on Pattie Ruffner Jacobsbr-Caroline Geb