The Madison Women Lorenn Walker whose first book won the

whose first book won the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize

exploring the evolution of contemporary civil-military relations

and the assessment metrics used to evaluate their impact

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The Madison Women Lorenn Walker whose first book won theBy uncovering how higher education and gender roles evolved in Appalachia over time, The Madison Women delivers a history that contradicts the stereotype of the region as hostile to education, highlighting colleges that proliferated the area in the 19th century. Indeed, many of these colleges were either coeducational or even specifically for women, ultimately contradicting another stereotype that Appalachia is a region particularly hostile toward