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Capitol women : Texas female legislators, 1923-1999 / Nancy Baker Jones and Ruthe Winegarten.
- Title
- Capitol women : Texas female legislators, 1923-1999 / Nancy Baker Jones and Ruthe Winegarten.
- Author
- Jones, Nancy Baker.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F391.3 .J66 2000 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Winegarten, Ruthe.
- Description
- xiv, 328 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Capitol Women, brings together for the first time the stories of Texas's women legislators. Through biographies, photographs, and interviews, this book captures their lives, campaign strategies, and legislative struggles and successes."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Political Context. Women in Red. Entering the "Men's Room": Women inside the Texas Legislature. Texas Women as Politicians: A Historical Overview. How the Texas Legislature Works -- Biographies. 1920s-1930s. Edith Eunice Therrel Wilmans. Mary Elizabeth (Margie) Neal. Laura Burleson Negley. Helen Edmunds Moore. Frances Mitchell Rountree. Cora Gray Strong. Sarah Tilghman Hughes. 1940s-1950s. Margaret Greer Harris Gordon (Amsler). Esther Neveille Higgs Colson. Rae Mandette Files (Still). Florence Fenley. Mary Elizabeth Suiter. Marian Isabel (Maribelle) Hamblen Stewart (Mills Reich). Persis Jones Henderson. Dorothy Gillis Gurley (Cauthorn). Virginia Elizabeth Duff. Anita Blair. Maud Isaacks. 1960s-1970s.
- ISBN
- 029274062X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0292740638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99044225^
- OCLC
- 42291245
- SCSB-10108181
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library