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Books about Kentucky Women

Celebrate Women's History Month and check out one of these great books about women in Kentucky.

Kenton County Public Library

18 items

  • Kentucky Women

    Their Lives and Times

    BookAthens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015] — 920.72 K37wom 2015
  • Kentucky Woman

    the Life of Viebie Catron Cantrell

    Klatte, Mary Ellen, 1943-
    BookAshland, Ky : Jesse Stuart Foundation, c2000. — B C2325k 2000
  • Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky

    Stories of Accommodation and Audacity

    Moosnick, Nora Rose
    BookLexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2012. — 305.488924 M825a 2012
  • I Shared the Dream

    the Pride, Passion and Politics of the First Black Woman Senator From Kentucky

    Powers, Georgia Davis
    BookFar Hills, N.J. : New Horizon Press, c1995. — B P8885
  • Our Rightful Place

    a History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880-1945

    Birdwhistell, Terry L.,
    BookLexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2020] — 378.769 K37b 2020
  • A Simple Justice

    Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote

    Goan, Melanie Beals, 1972-
    BookLexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2020] — 324.623 G573s 2020
  • The Quare Women

    A Story of the Kentucky Mountains

    Furman, Lucy
    eBook2019.
  • Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State

    Revisiting My Old Kentucky Home

    BookLexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2023] — 306.362 S631a 2023
  • Bonds of Womanhood

    Slavery and the Decline of a Kentucky Plantation

    Delfino, Susanna, 1949-
    BookLexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2021. — B G857d 2021
  • Hill Women

    Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

    Chambers, Cassie,
    BookNew York : Ballantine Books, [2020] — B C4436 2020
  • Loretta Lynn

    Coal Miner's Daughter

    Lynn, Loretta
    BookNew York, NY : Vintage Books, 2010. — B L989 2010