Las Tejanas : 300 years of history /
Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businessw...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2003.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Series: | Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ;
no. 10 |
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Native women, Mestizas, and colonists
- The status of women in the colonial period
- From the Republic of Texas to 1900
- Revolution, racism, and resistance, 1900-1940
- Life in rural Texas, 1900-1940
- Life in urban Texas, 1900-1940
- Education: learning, teaching, leading
- Entering business and the professions
- Faith and community
- Politics, the Chicano movement, and Tejana feminism
- Winning and holding public office
- Arts and culture.