Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 210
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4422-2127-7 • Hardback • July 2013 • $91.00 • (£70.00)
978-1-4422-2128-4 • eBook • July 2013 • $86.50 • (£67.00)
Anna Eblen is professor of communication at Western Washington University. She is co-editor of Women Who Speak for Peace (R&L 2002) and author of numerous articles and papers.
Martha Jane Eblen is vice president of Eblen Short Stop Stores and a community leader in Asheville, NC. She has co-authored several papers on women in leadership.
Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I ADVOCATING
1 Coming Together for a Better World
2 Networking for Children’s Health
3 Linking for Peace
PART II DEVELOPING AS AN ACTIVIST
4 Family and Neighbors Survive the Great Depression
5 Community on the Eve of World War II
6 Marrying, Creating a Family, and Volunteering
7 Joining Political Life as First Lady of Arkansas
8 Living on the D.C. Beltway
9 Detaching, Returning to Arkansas, and the Future
10 Understanding a Life Story
Bibliography
Author Biographies
Index
In Betty Bumpers: Champion of Childhood Immunization and Peace, editors Anna L. Eblen and Martha Jane Eblen bring together Bumpers’s own words, transcribed from speeches, writings, and interviews, and reminiscences of Bumper by those who worked with her. What emerges is the portrait of a remarkable woman whose story, the editors note in their preface, ‘has spanned almost a century—from a childhood in the rural Arkansas Dust Bowl to adulthood in the DC Beltway’s halls of power to elder years back in Little Rock, Arkansas.”. . .Betty Bumpers blazed the trail for other women, including another former Arkansas First Lady, Hillary Clinton. . . .[Betty’s] compelling story as a political wife who transcended the boundaries of her time and role deserves to be told. . . .Strong-willed and determined, she accomplished what she set out to do [and] the Eblens’ slim volume pays tribute.
— Journal of American Culture