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Women in Texas history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boswell, Angela, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2018].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Women in Texas history series.
Subjects:
Women > Texas > History.
Women > Southern States > History.
Women > Texas > Social conditions.
Gender expression > Texas.
Texas > Race relations.
Texas > Ethnic relations.
Women pioneers > Texas.
Texas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women.
Table of 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
  • Conclusion
  • Notes.