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Kerrison has also written about the history of beauty and attraction. Although she has welcomed the increased prominence of women in a variety of industries in the last 30 years, she believes "beauty is being constituted primarily as female", and it is still important for any woman in the public eye.
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contributed to literature and print in the 18th century. In the book, Kerrison demonstrates the types of hierarchies that women in the southern United States faced, including race, class and gender. Kerrison's attention to women writers in the South, who had been largely neglected by historians in
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Kerrison used oral history and other forms of literature and writing to examine the intellectual lives of Southern women. Women in the South generally did not have as many advantages as their counterparts in New England, Kerrison argues. However, many of them found outlets through religion,
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Vietto, Angela (2006). "Daughters of the Tenth Muse: New Histories of Women and Writing in Early America".
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Kerrison is the Academic Director of Gender and Women's Studies of Villanova. In 2012, she was a
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Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800
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Rhetorical Drag: Gender, Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History
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Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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By the Book: Advice and Female Behavior in the Eighteenth-Century South
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By the Book: Advice and Female Behavior in the Eighteenth-Century South
1041: 572: 298:(PhD thesis). Williamsburg, Virginia: College of William & Mary. 244:(2018) was called "an insightful contribution to women's history" by 93: 158:(born 1953) is an American historian, and professor of history at 266:, Harriet's mother. Her portrait of Jefferson is unflattering. 974:"What Makes Someone 'Most Beautiful' Is Changing, Study Says" 402:"Practice Shelf-Care with NPR at the National Book Festival" 863:"Jefferson's Three Daughters – Two Free, One Enslaved" 806:. Vol. 85, no. 20. Austin, Texas: Kirkus Media. 504:, Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly, 431:. New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. xii–xiii. 1055: 381:
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Kerrison was born on September 30, 1953. She studied
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American history
women's history
Villanova University
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