Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life): 3 - Hardcover

Boswell, Angela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585441287 ISBN 13: 9781585441280

Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This text follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the 19th century. It seeks to illuminate the truths of the feminine world of this period and challenge the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence.

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Review:

"Angela Boswell has produced an important and original piece of work that helps fill the enormous gap that currently exists in Southern women's history. Painstakingly comparing society's images of women against the reality of farm women's lives in the nineteenth-century Texas, she describes a hardscrabble world in which most women adhered to domestic feminine ideals that were virtually impossible to achieve. Taking us from Texas's antebellum frontier state through its experience of Civil War and Reconstruction, she presents us with a changing world in which white and black women struggled form their separate stations to find security in a most insecure world."--Victoria E. Bynum, Southwest Texas State University

About the Author:

Angela Boswell is associate professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She received her doctorate from Rice University and has written extensively on the history of Southern women.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1585441287
• ISBN 13: 9781585441280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224