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11%OFFJudith N. McArthur - Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women´s Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 - 9780252066795 - V9780252066795
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Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women´s Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918

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Description for Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women´s Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 216 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 318.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Women in American History
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066795
SKU
V9780252066795
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About Judith N. McArthur
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.

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