Texas Through Women’s Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

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Winner, Liz Carpenter Award For Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association, 2010

Texas women broke barriers right through the twentieth century, winning the fitting to vote, expanding their get right of entry to to higher education, entering new professions, participating fully in civic and political life, and planning their families. Yet these major achievements have hardly been recognized in histories of twentieth-century Texas. By contrast, Texas Through Women’s Eyes offers an interesting overview of women’s experiences and achievements in the twentieth century, with an inclusive focal point on rural women, working-class women, and women of color.

McArthur and Smith trace the history of Texas women through four eras. They discuss how women entered the public sphere to work for social reforms and the fitting to vote throughout the Progressive era (1900–1920); how they continued working for reform and social justice and for greater opportunities in education and the body of workers throughout the Great Depression and World War II (1920–1945); how African American and Mexican American women fought for labor and civil rights at the same time as Anglo women laid the foundation for two-party politics throughout the postwar years (1945–1965); and how second-wave feminists (1965–2000) promoted diverse and every so often competing goals, including passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive freedom, gender equity in sports, and the upward thrust of the New Right and the Republican party.

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