par Boswell, Angela
Texas A&M University Press
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Disponible - 973.2 BOS
Niveau 2 - Histoire
Women in Texas history
Résumé
Popular understandings of Texas History often center on men—from Spanish conquistadors and fighters at the Alamo to oil barons and political titans. Boswell (Henderson State Univ.) provides a welcome balance to this narrative that supplements survey texts. The initial chapter’s coverage of Native American and Spanish colonial Texas is fleeting, although women in this era established patterns of exchange and ideas about property that decisively influenced Texas well into the 19th century. The author offers more detail on the roles of women in the Anglo-American settlement of Texas after 1821 and the plight of women—including African Americans and Tejanas—during subsequent conflicts. The strongest chapters examine women’s activism and labor from 1870 to 1930, with Boswell’s inclusion of a wide range of perspectives from oral histories. This book concludes with an apt observation of the struggles of Texas women in a political landscape that “that expects them to act as 'ladies' while trying to win offices that require them to demonstrate their toughness” (274). This pressure to uphold strict gender norms yet face hardships in ways that confound these restraints provides an overarching theme to this history of women in Texas. - Note de Choice
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Date
- 2018
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Langues
- Anglais
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Description matérielle
- 1 vol. (345 p.) : Ill ; 25 cm
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ISBN
- 9781623497071
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Indice
- 973.2 Histoire du Sud des États-Unis
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Origine de la notice:
- BPI
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Disponible - 973.2 BOS
Niveau 2 - Histoire
