Creating the new woman : the rise of southern women's progressive culture in Texas, 1893-1918
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Creating the new woman : the rise of southern women's progressive culture in Texas, 1893-1918
（Women in American history）
University of Illinois Press, c1998
- : pbk
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151] -192) and index
Contents of Works
- "The coming woman in politics"
- Domestic revolutionaries
- Every mother's child
- Cities of women
- "I wish my mother had a vote"
- "These piping times of victory"
- Conclusion : gender and public cultures
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Regionally distinct yet influenced by national trends, women's progressive culture in Texas offers a valuable opportunity to analyze the evolution of women's voluntary associations, their challenges to southern conventions of race and class, and their quest for social change and political power.
Judith McArthur traces how general concerns of national progressive organizations about pure food, prostitution, and education reform shaped programs at the state and local levels. Southern women differed from their Northern counterparts by devising new approaches to settlement work and taking advantage of World War I to challenge southern gender and racial norms. McArthur's original analysis details how women in Texas succeeded in securing partial voting rights before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. She also provides valuable comparisons between North and South, among various southern states, and between black and white, and male and female, progressives.
Table of Contents
"The coming woman in politics" -- Domestic revolutionaries -- Every mother's child -- Cities of women -- "I wish my mother had a vote" -- "These piping times of victory" -- Conclusion : gender and public cultures.
by "Nielsen BookData"