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Klappentext Combining scholarly research with vivid, first-person accounts, this lively history for the first time tells the story of women¿s experiences in twentieth-century Texas, with an inclusive focus on rural women, working-class women, and women of color. Zusammenfassung Combining scholarly research with vivid, first-person accounts, this lively history for the first time tells the story of women's experiences in twentieth-century Texas, with an inclusive focus on rural women, working-class women, and women of colour. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Social Reform and Suffrage in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 Urbanization and Economic OpportunityStrikes and Labor ActivismEducation and ProfessionalismMotherhood and Social HousekeepingPublic Health: Cleaning Up the Food SupplyMaternalist Legislation: Child Labor, Compulsory Education, and Mothers' PensionsClaiming Urban Space: Settlement Houses and Prostitution DistrictsThe Boundaries of RaceImmigration and Revolution in the BorderlandsVotes for WomenThe Politics of Woman SuffrageSuffrage in Black and WhiteSuggested ReferencesDocumentsPart Two: Post-Suffrage Politics, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 Rural LifeThe New Woman in Politics"Female" Politics and the "Petticoat" LobbyAthletics: Hoop Dreams and Rodeo QueensEducation and WorkWomen of Color: Discrimination and ProtestSurviving the Great DepressionThe New Deal and WomenDiscrimination in the New DealWorld War II: The Home FrontWomen in UniformConclusion: New Women, Labor Women, and Race WomenSuggested ReferencesDocumentsPart Three: Conformity, Civil Rights, and Social Protest, 1945-1965 Gender Roles and the Domestic IdealWomen at WorkCivil Rights, Brown: "They Treated Us Like Dumb Mexicans"Civil Rights, Black: "You're Not Dirt, No Matter Where They Make You Sit"Red Scare Politics and the Minute WomenWomen and the Rise of the Republican PartyLegal RightsSuggested ReferencesDocumentsPart Four: Feminism, Backlash, and Political Culture, 1965-2000 Title VII and Civil Rights for WomenThe New Left and Women's LiberationChicana FeminismReproductive FreedomThe Equal Rights Amendment: For and AgainstSplintered Sisterhood: The 1977 Houston Women's ConferenceAftermath: Women and the New RightCracking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Electoral PoliticsTitle IX and Gender Equity in SportsWomen in the WorkforceFamily and Personal Life at the End of the CenturyConclusion: Facing Forward, Looking BackSuggested ReferencesDocuments...
