Southern Women: More Than 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists, and Icons

Through interviews, essays, photos, and illustrations these remarkable chefs, musicians, actors, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, and public servants will offer a dynamic portrait of who the Southern woman is now. The voices of bona fide icons such as Sissy Spacek, Leah Chase, and Loretta Lynn join those whose stories for too long have been overlooked or underestimated, from the pioneering Texas rancher Minnie Lou Bradley to the Gee´s Bend, Alabama, quilter Mary Margaret Pettway--all visionaries who have left their indelible mark not. just on Southern culture, but on America itself.