ISBN:
9780820337449
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (545 p)
Series Statement:
Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
Parallel Title:
Print version Texas Women : Their Histories, Their Lives
DDC:
976.40082
Keywords:
Women -- Texas -- History
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Women -- Texas -- Social conditions
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Women -- Texas -- Biography
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Women ; Texas ; Biography
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Women ; Texas ; History
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Women ; Texas ; Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas's singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories mirror a larger American narrative. The biographies and essays illustrate an uncommon diversity among Texas women, reflecting experiences ranging from those of dispossessed enslaved women to wealthy patrons of the arts. That history also captures the ways in which women's lives reflect both personal
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: 1600- 1880; Indian Women Who "Carry Gallantry Still Further Than the Men": A Barometer of Power in Eighteenth- Century Texas; Spanish Law and Women in Colonial Texas, 1719- 1821: "I Wish to Make Use of All the Laws in My Favor"; The Lives of Enslaved Women in Texas: Changing Borders and Challenging Boundaries; Sallie McNeill: A Woman's Higher Education in Antebellum Texas; Harriet Perry: A Woman's Life in Civil War Texas; Capitalist Women in Central Texas, 1865- 1880: "A Ready Market"; Part Two: 1880- 1925
Description / Table of Contents:
Adele Briscoe Looscan: Daughter of the RepublicEllen Lawson Dabbs: Waving the Equal Rights Banner; Mariana Thompson Folsom: Laying the Foundation for Women's Rights Activism; Jovita Idar: The Ideological Origins of a Transnational Advocate for La Raza; Maternity Wars: Gender, Race, and the Sheppard- Towner Act in Texas; Part Three: 1925- 2000; Frances Battaile Fisk: Clubwoman and Promoter of the Visual Arts in Texas; Latinas in Dallas, 1910- 2010: Becoming New Women; Oveta Culp Hobby: Ability, Perseverance, and Cultural Capital in a Twentieth- Century Success Story
Description / Table of Contents:
Ranch Women and Rodeo Performers in Post- World War II West Texas: A Cowgirl by Any Other Name-Than FeministCasey Hayden: Gender and the Origins of sncc, sds, and the Women's Liberation Movement; Julia Scott Reed: Presenting the Truth about African Americans in Dallas; Barbara Jordan: The Paradox of Black Female Ambition; Hermine Tobolowsky: A Feminist's Fight for Equal Rights; Mae C. Jemison: The Right Stuff; Epilogue: Exploring Women's Stories: A Personal Perspective; Writing Texas Women's History: Looking Back, Looking Forward; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N
Description / Table of Contents:
OP; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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