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Las Tejanas : 300 years of history /

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Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businessw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acosta, Teresa Palomo
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Winegarten, Ruthe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 10.
Subjects:
Mexican American women > Texas > History.
Mexican American women > Texas > Social conditions.
Texas > History.
Texas > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Native women, Mestizas, and colonists
  • The status of women in the colonial period
  • From the Republic of Texas to 1900
  • Revolution, racism, and resistance, 1900-1940
  • Life in rural Texas, 1900-1940
  • Life in urban Texas, 1900-1940
  • Education: learning, teaching, leading
  • Entering business and the professions
  • Faith and community
  • Politics, the Chicano movement, and Tejana feminism
  • Winning and holding public office
  • Arts and culture.