Women's art and authorship in the Southern region : connections / Thadious M. Davis -- The real beginning of the Southern Renaissance / Carol S. Manning -- Zora Neale Hurston was always a Southerner too / Jan Cooper --Southern ladies and the Southern Literary Renaissance / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- Orphaning as resistance / Joan Schulz -- Fathers and daughters in Welty and O'Connor / Louise Westling -- Spiritual daughters of the Black American South / Mary Hughes Brookhart -- Dismantling stereotypes : interracial friendships in Meridian and A mother and two daughters / Suzanne W. Jones -- Caroline Hentz's balancing act / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- Songs with a difference : Beatrice Ravenel and the detritus of Southern history / Susan V. Donaldson
(cont) A forgotten revolutionary voice : "woman's place" and race in Olive Dargan's Call home the heart / Anna Shannon Elfenbein -- The dominant chord and the different voice : the sexes in Gordon's stories / Jill Fritz-Piggott -- Zelda Fitzgerald's Save me the waltz as Southern novel and Künstlerroman / Lisa Nanney -- The love ethos of Porter, Welty, and McCullers / Ruth M. Vande Kieft -- Daughters, Southerners, and Daisy / Doris Betts