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Women and Texas history : selected essays

Author: Fane Downs; Nancy Baker Jones
Publisher: Austin : Texas State Historical Association, ©1993.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Women have long made significant contributions to Texas history. Only in recent years, however, has their part in that history begun to be told. The great strides made in Texas women's studies are reflected in this important new book of essays about women and their many roles in the history of our state. In October 1990 the Texas State Historical Association sponsored a conference, "Women and Texas History," which
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Genre/Form: Biography
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Women and Texas history.
Austin : Texas State Historical Association, c1993
(OCoLC)647695371
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fane Downs; Nancy Baker Jones
ISBN: 0876111193 9780876111192
OCLC Number: 27770570
Description: xviii, 182 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Nancy Baker Jones --
Introduction / Fane Downs --
Texas Women and the Writing of Women's History / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese --
The Entry of Mexican Women into Urban Based Industries: Experiences in Texas During the Twentieth Century / Barbara J. Rozek --
Hispanic and Mexican American Women on the Texas Stage, 1875-1990 / Elizabeth C. Ramirez --
Pauline Periwinkle: Prodding Dallas into the Progressive Era / Jacquelyn McElhaney --
Saving the Children: The Women's Crusade Against Child Labor, 1902-1918 / Judith N. McArthur --
The "Next 'Big Job'": Women Prison Reformers in Texas, 1918-1930 / Paul M. Lucko --
Professional, Feminine, and Feminist: Annie Webb Blanton and the Founding of Delta Kappa Gamma / Debbie Mauldin Cottrell --
Bonnet in the Ring: Minnie Fisher Cunningham's Campaign for Governor of Texas in 1944 / Patricia Ellen Cunningham --
Domesticity and the Texas Oil Fields: Dimensions of Women's Experience, 1920-1950 / Diana Davids Olien. To Wed and to Teach: The Myth of the Single Teacher / Sylvia Hunt --
Sepia Record as a Forum for Negotiating Women's Roles / Sherilyn Brandenstein --
Women as Literary Participants in Contemporary Events / Lou Rodenberger --
Women's Literature and History in Texas: A Confluence of Traditions / Sylvia Grider --
Where Do We Go from Here? A (Very Personal) Response to "Women and Texas History: A Conference." / Elizabeth York Enstam.
Other Titles: Women & Texas history.
Responsibility: edited by Fane Downs and Nancy Baker Jones ; with a keynote essay by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

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Women have long made significant contributions to Texas history. Only in recent years, however, has their part in that history begun to be told. The great strides made in Texas women's studies are reflected in this important new book of essays about women and their many roles in the history of our state. In October 1990 the Texas State Historical Association sponsored a conference, "Women and Texas History," which brought together some of the leading scholars in the field of women's studies. This highly successful conference - attended by hundreds and awarded recognition for its excellence by the AASLH - produced a raft of exciting presentations which demonstrated the vigorous quality and growth of women's studies in and about Texas. Women and Texas History includes thirteen of the best presentations at the conference.

This "milestone" publication, notes Fane Downs in her introduction to Women and Texas History, represents "the emerging maturity of the field of Texas women's history; moreover, these essays add significantly to our knowledge of the complex and diverse history of Texas." This ground-breaking volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers, and is well adapted to classroom use.

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