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Women in Texas history

Title: Women in Texas history / Angela Boswell ; foreword by Nancy Baker Jones and Cynthia J. Beeman.
Author: Boswell, Angela, 1965-
Publication: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2018]

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Description

xviii, 345 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution--and there have been many--represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women's history. By emphasizing the differences between race and ethnicity, Angela Boswell uses three broad themes to tie together the narrative of women in Texas history. First, the physical and geographic challenges of Texas as a place significantly affected women's lives, from the struggles of isolated frontier farming to the opportunities and problems of increased urbanization. Second, the changing landscape of legal and political power continued to shape women's lives and opportunities, from the ballot box to the courthouse and beyond. Finally, Boswell demonstrates the powerful influence of social and cultural forces on the identity, agency, and everyday life of women in Texas. In challenging male-dominated legal and political systems, Texan women shaped (and were shaped by) class, religion, community organizations, literary and artistic endeavors, and more. Women in Texas History is the first book to narrate the entire span of Texas women's history and marks a major achievement in telling the full story of the Lone Star State. Historians and general readers alike will find this book an informative and enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of Texas or the history of women.

Series Statement

Women in Texas history

Uniform Title

Women in Texas history series.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Native American, Spanish, and Mexican women in Native American Texas -- The Frontier South in the early nineteenth century -- Creating an antebellum society in Texas -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Making West Texas -- Women's activism, 1870s-1920s -- Women's work, 1890s-1920s -- Depression and war -- Accepting and rejecting conformity in the postwar decades -- Taking charge: women to the end of the twentieth century -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Native American, Spanish, and Mexican women in Native American Texas -- The Frontier South in the early nineteenth century -- Creating an antebellum society in Texas -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- Making West Texas -- Women's activism, 1870s-1920s -- Women's work, 1890s-1920s -- Depression and war -- Accepting and rejecting conformity in the postwar decades -- Taking charge: women to the end of the twentieth century.

Call Number

JFE 19-1703

ISBN

9781623497071
1623497078

LCCN

2018028076

OCLC

1034605738

Author

Boswell, Angela, 1965- author.

Title

Women in Texas history / Angela Boswell ; foreword by Nancy Baker Jones and Cynthia J. Beeman.

Publisher

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2018]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Women in Texas history

Women in Texas history series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1861-1865

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1703

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