Texas Women - Their Histories, Their Lives

"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 waysthat 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. Beginningwith 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"--

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Hayes (EDT)/ Cole Turner
• Assisted by: Stephanie Cole (Editor), Rebecca Sharpless (Editor), Elizabeth Turner (Editor), Elizabeth Hayes Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9780820347202
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4720-2
• Series: Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous