Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's

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

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.

Country	USA
Author	Judith N. McArthur
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780252066795
ISBN	0252066790
Label	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	216
PublicationDate	1998-01-01
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Studio	University of Illinois Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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