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Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives And Times Ser.) - 9780820337449

University of Georgia Press
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This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state. Offering insights into the complex ways that Texas' position on the margins of the United States has shaped a particular kind of gendered experience there, the volume also demonstrates how the larger questions in United States women's history are answered or reconceived in the state. Beginning with Juliana Barr's essay, which asserts that 'women marked the lines of dominion among Spanish and Indian nations in Texas' and explodes the myth of Spanish domination in colonial Texas, the essays examine the ways that women were able to use their borderland status to stretch the boundaries of their own lives. Eric Walther demonstrates that the constant changing of governments in Texas (Spanish, Mexican, Texan, and U.S.) gave slaves the opportunities to resist their oppression because of the differences in the laws of slavery under Spanish or English or American law. Gabriela Gonzalez examines the activism of Jovita Idar on behalf of civil rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border. Renee Laegreid argues that female rodeo contestants employed a unique regional interplay of masculine and feminine behaviors" to shape their identities as cowgirls"--


  • | Author: Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Sharpless
  • | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
  • | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2015
  • | Number of Pages: 544 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0820337447
  • | ISBN-13: 9780820337449
Author:
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher:
University Of Georgia Press
Publication Date:
Jan 15, 2015
Number of pages:
544 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
0820337447
ISBN-13:
9780820337449