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Creating the New Woman

The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918

Judith N McArthur author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:1st Jan '98

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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.

ISBN: 9780252066795

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 340g

216 pages