Why read Womenfolks?

Book cover of Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

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Reflects on the experience of growing up female in the South, explaining the meaning of the southern heritage, the southern notion of the feminine ideal, and the reasons why southern women leave their roots.

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1 author picked Womenfolks as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Lindsay Allason-Jones

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A wittily written, powerful evocation of women’s lives in Arkansas from the 1930s to the 1980s, the history of how they got there and what made them such strong women. This is a revelation of family myth and tradition told fondly, yet with piercing pragmatism, in a way that provides insights into how we can understand women’s lives at all periods and in all places.

From Lindsay's list on The best books that show how people in different periods or cultures lived their lives.