Fertile ground, narrow choices : women on Texas cotton farms, 1900-1940 /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sharpless, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, ©1999.
Series:Studies in rural culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Rural women > Texas > History > 20th century.
Cotton farmers > Texas > History > 20th century.
Femmes en milieu rural > Texas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Producteurs de coton > Texas > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Cotton farmers
Rural conditions
Rural women
Boerinnen.
Katoen.
Texas > Rural conditions.
Texas > Conditions rurales.
Texas
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Women, Cotton, and the Crop-Lien System
  • 1. Women, Daughters, Wives, Mothers: Gender and Family Relationships
  • 2. Keeping Warm, Keeping Dry: Housekeeping and Clothing in the Blackland Prairie
  • 3. Living at Home: Food Production and Preparation in the Blackland Prairie
  • 4. Making a Hand: Women's Labor in the Fields
  • 5. Life Beyond the Farm: Women and Their Communities
  • 6. Staying or Going: Urbanization and the Depopulation of the Rural Blackland Prairie.

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