Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
Spring 2012
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 32:2 (Spring 2012).
Abstract
Texas Through Women's Eyes tells the story of twentieth-century Texans who are mostly left out of Texas history texts. Including women of all races and social classes, the book is arranged to make it especially useful for college classes, but is written in a manner non-academics can enjoy. Each of its four chronological parts (1900-1920, 1920-1945, 1945-1965, and 1965-2000) begins with a lively narrative broken down into several topics, accompanied by a suggested reading list, and ends with a selection of documents pertaining closely to the narrative.
Part 1, "Social Reform and Suffrage in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920," effectively links reform movements to the women who promoted and benefited from them. Topics include urbanization, labor activism, social housekeeping, food and child laws, and immigration-along with suffrage. Women of color are highlighted in the sections on "The Politics of Woman Suffrage" and "Immigration and Revolution in the Borderlands." Black and Hispanic women, farm women, even prostitutes find a place in the documents section. Readers are treated to antias well as pro-suffrage arguments.
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