Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) - Softcover

McArthur, Judith N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252066790 ISBN 13: 9780252066795

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Judith N. McArthur teaches history at the University of Houston-Victoria. She is the coauthor of Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics and A Gentleman and an Officer: The Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War.

From the Back Cover

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 makes an important and accessible contribution to the study of women's activism by tracing in detail how general concerns of national progressive organizations - about pure food, prostitution, and education reform - shaped programs at 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 offers a unique analysis of how women in Texas succeeded in securing partial voting rights before passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Throughout her study, McArthur provides valuable comparisons between North and South, among various southern states, and between black and white, male and female progressives.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252066790
• ISBN 13: 9780252066795
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216