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WGST LIBRARY COLLECTION
Donated by Florida Jackson Yeldell
The Robert J. Jackson Women's Studies Collection at Coastal Carolina University began in 2004. Florida Jackson Yeldell started the collection in honor of her father, a mail carrier who had a passion for history and his daughter's success. Florida Yeldell aspired to remember Papa with books, biographies about women all over the world, to acknowledge the universality of women and to acknowledge we live in a global world."
Yeldell was a life-long educator who was raised in Georgetown, South Carolina. She earned her A.B. in English from Morris University in 1936, and then taught fifth and sixth graders for two years. She then went on to study history at Howard University where she earned her Master's degree in 1941. She worked for the government during World War II, and taught U.S. history and social studies at colleges in Texas until she retired in 1979. She then returned to her home in South Carolina where she volunteered and taught history in Horry and Georgetown counties, including Brookgreen Gardens.
The collection currently includes 222 books that address a wide variety of topics, and will continue to grow yearly. Listed below are some of the most recent additions to the collection.
Women and Gender
| Femininity in flight: a history of flight attendants | Kathleen M. Barry | |
| Gender | Harriet Bradley | |
| Taking on the big boys, or, Why feminism is good for families, business, and the nation | Ellen Bravo | |
| Herself an author: gender, agency, and writing in late Imperial China | Grace S. Fong | |
| Gender, class, and freedom in modern political theory | Nancy J. Hirschmann | |
| Women novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814: in the voice of our biblical mothers | Elizabeth Kraft | |
| The Japanese "new woman": images of gender and modernity | Dina Lowy | |
| Playing with the boys: why separate is not equal in sports | Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano | |
| Feminist cultural studies of science and technology | Maureen McNeil | |
| Margaret Fuller, wandering pilgrim | Meg McGavran Murray | |
| Girls on the stand: how courts fail pregnant minors | Helena Silverstein | |
| Justice, gender, and the politics of multiculturalism | Sarah Song | |
| Professional pursuits: women and the American arts and crafts movement | Catherine W. Zipf |
American History
| Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles | Janet L. Abu-Lughod | |
| Sharing our stories of survival: native women surviving violence | edited by Sarah Deer ... [et al.] | |
| American women stage directors of the twentieth century | Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow | |
| The exchange artist: a tale of high-flying speculation and America's first banking collapse | Jane Kamensky | |
| Presidential leadership, illness, and decision making | Rose McDermott | |
| Suffragists in an imperial age: U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929 | Allison L. Sneider | |
| Inventing the "American way": the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civil rights movement | Wendy L. Wall |
African American History
| Inventing black women: African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000 | Ajuan Maria Mance | |
| Clinging to mammy: the faithful slave in twentieth-century America | Micki McElya | |
| "Closer to the truth than any fact": memoir, memory, and Jim Crow | Jennifer Jensen Wallach |
World History
| The authentic Confucius: a life of thought and politics | Annping Chin | |
| Portrait of a priestess: women and ritual in ancient Greece | Joan Breton Connelly | |
| Haunting experiences: ghosts in contemporary folklore | Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas | |
| Blood sport: hunting in Britain since 1066 | Emma Griffin | |
| The wealth of wives: women, law, and economy in late medieval London | Barbara A. Hanawalt | |
| Never sang for Hitler: the life and times of Lotte Lehmann, 1888-1976 | Michael H. Kater | |
| The French betrayal of Rwanda | Daniela Kroslak | |
| Deconstructing legitimacy: viceroys, merchants, and the military in late colonial Peru | Patricia H. Marks | |
| Japanese women poets: an anthology | translated and with an introduction by Hiroaki Sato | |
| Master and servant: love and labour in the English industrial age | Carolyn Steedman | |
| The coolie speaks: Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba | Lisa Yun | |
| Strangers either way: the lives of Croatian refugees in their new home | Jasna Capo Zmegac; translated by Nina H. Antoljak, Mateusz M. Stanojevic |
Art
| Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's performance of modernism | Rhonda K. Garelick | |
| Edith Wharton and the visual arts | Emily J. Orlando |
Social Studies
| Valuing children: rethinking the economics of the family | Nancy Folbre | |
| The cure within: a history of mind-body medicine | Anne Harrington | |
| The world of Mexican migrants: the rock and the hard place | Judith Adler Hellman | |
| Followership: how followers are creating change and changing leaders | Barbara Kellerman | |
| Life after welfare: reform and the persistence of poverty | Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Nanges Douglas and Daniel G. Schroeder | |
| Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies | Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff | |
| Dinner with a cannibal: the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo | Carole A. Travis-Henikoff; foreword by Christy G. Turner II |