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Author: Sylvia Ann Grider
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780890967652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
Author: Elizabeth Hayes Turner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0820347205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state. Offering insights into the complex ways that Texas' position on the margins of the United States has shaped a particular kind of gendered experience there, the volume also demonstrates how the larger questions in United States women's history are answered or reconceived in the state. Beginning with Juliana Barr's essay, which asserts that 'women marked the lines of dominion among Spanish and Indian nations in Texas' and explodes the myth of Spanish domination in colonial Texas, the essays examine the ways that women were able to use their borderland status to stretch the boundaries of their own lives. Eric Walther demonstrates that the constant changing of governments in Texas (Spanish, Mexican, Texan, and U.S.) gave slaves the opportunities to resist their oppression because of the differences in the laws of slavery under Spanish or English or American law. Gabriela Gonzalez examines the activism of Jovita Idar on behalf of civil rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border. Renee Laegreid argues that female rodeo contestants employed a "unique regional interplay of masculine and feminine behaviors" to shape their identities as cowgirls"--
Author: Sarah Bird
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 1477309497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it that distinguishes Texas women—the famous Yellow Rose and her descendants? Is it that combination of graciousness and grit that we revere in First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson? The rapier-sharp wit that Ann Richards and Molly Ivins used to skewer the good ole boy establishment? The moral righteousness with which Barbara Jordan defended the US constitution? An unnatural fondness for Dr Pepper and queso? In her inimitable style, Sarah Bird pays tribute to the Texas Woman in all her glory and all her contradictions. She humorously recalls her own early bewildered attempts to understand Lone Star gals, from the big-haired, perfectly made-up ladies at the Hyde Park Beauty Salon to her intellectual, quinoa-eating roommates at Seneca House Co-op for Graduate Women. After decades of observing Texas women, Bird knows the species as few others do. A Love Letter to Texas Women is a must-have guide for newcomers to the state and the ideal gift to tell any Yellow Rose how special she is.
Author: Sylvia Ann Grider
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
Author: Iva Nell Elder
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780890153987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEtta Lynch -- Pauline Watson -- Marilyn Cooley -- Suzanne Morris -- Elizabeth Silverthorne -- Nilah Rodgers Turner -- Dorothy Prunty -- Margaret Cousins -- Joan Lowery Nixon -- Juanita Zachry -- Phyllis S. Prokop -- Jane G. Rushing -- Jeannette Clift George -- Ethel Lindamood Evey -- Lucy H. Wallace -- Beatrice S. Levin -- Juanita Bourns.
Author: Catherine Rainwater
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0813182999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnn Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression. The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent ways rely heavily upon narrative gaps, surfaces, and silences, often suggesting depths which are lamentably absent from modern experience or which mysteriously elude language. For Kingston and Walker, verbal assertiveness is the focus of narratives depicting the gradual empowerment of female protagonists who learn to speak themselves into existence. Ozick and Tyler disrupt conventional reader expectations of the "anti-novel" and the "family novel," respectively. Finally, Morrison's and Piercy's works reveal how traditional narrative forms such as the Bildungsroman and the "soap opera" are adaptable to feminist purposes. In examining the writings of these ten important women authors, this book illuminates a significant moment in literary history when women's voices are profoundly reshaping American literary tradition.
Author: Gabriella de Beer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1996-11-01
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780292715851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining distinctive voices and outlooks, these are the women whom Gabriella de Beer has chosen to profile in Contemporary Mexican Women Writers. De Beer takes a three-part approach to each writer. She opens with an essay that explores the writer's apprenticeship and discusses her major works. Next, she interviews each writer to learn about her background, writing, and view of herself and others. Finally, de Beer offers selections from the writer's work that have not been previously published in English translation. Each section concludes with a complete bibliographic listing of the writer's works and their English translations. These essays, interviews, and selections vividly recreate the experience of being with the writer and sharing her work, hearing her tell about and evaluate herself, and reading the words she has written. The book will be rewarding reading for everyone who enjoys fine writing.
Author: Sylvia Ann Grider
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781585442935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.
Author: Angela Boswell
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1623497078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women’s history. By emphasizing the differences between race and ethnicity, Angela Boswell uses three broad themes to tie together the narrative of women in Texas history. First, the physical and geographic challenges of Texas as a place significantly affected women’s lives, from the struggles of isolated frontier farming to the opportunities and problems of increased urbanization. Second, the changing landscape of legal and political power continued to shape women’s lives and opportunities, from the ballot box to the courthouse and beyond. Finally, Boswell demonstrates the powerful influence of social and cultural forces on the identity, agency, and everyday life of women in Texas. In challenging male-dominated legal and political systems, Texan women shaped (and were shaped by) class, religion, community organizations, literary and artistic endeavors, and more. Women in Texas History is the first book to narrate the entire span of Texas women’s history and marks a major achievement in telling the full story of the Lone Star State. Historians and general readers alike will find this book an informative and enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of Texas or the history of women.
Author: Diane Fanning
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from a number of women writers from Texas including Liz Carpenter, Suzy Spencer, Celeste Guzman, and others.
