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

by Judith N. McArthur

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066790
• ISBN13: 9780252066795
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"