Texas Women : Their Histories, Their Lives

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"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 Tex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Turner, Elizabeth Hayes
Otros Autores: Sharpless, Rebecca, Cole, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Social conditions.
Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Femmes > Texas > Biographies.
Femmes > Texas > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Texas > Histoire.
Women > Texas > Biography.
Women > Texas > Social conditions.
Women > Texas > History.
Texas.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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