Women and the Texas Revolution [electronic resource] / edited by Mary L. Scheer.
Scheer, Mary L., 1949-
2012
F390 .W87 2012eb
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Title Women and the Texas Revolution [electronic resource] / edited by Mary L. Scheer.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781574414592 (electronic book)
9781574414691
Imprint Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 244 p.)
Call Number F390 .W87 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.40976409/034
Summary Historically, wars and revolutions have offered politically and socially disadvantaged people the opportunity to contribute to the nation (or cause) in exchange for future expanded rights. Although shorter than most conflicts, the Texas Revolution nonetheless profoundly affected not only the leaders and armies, but the survivors, especially women, who endured those tumultuous events and whose lives were altered by the accompanying political, social, and economic changes. While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna's troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, black, and Hispanic women of the time. Like the American Revolution, women's experiences in the Texas Revolution varied tremendously by class, religion, race, and region. While the majority of immigrants who crossed the Sabine and Red rivers into Texas in the 1820s and 1830s were men, many were women who accompanied their husbands and families or, in some instances, braved the dangers and the hardships of the frontier alone. Black and Hispanic women were also present in Mexican Texas. Most black women came as chattel property (or free blacks) and most Tejanas were already living in predominantly Spanish or Mexican communities. The Native American female population, a sizeable but declining segment of the population, was also in the region, inhabiting the prairies and plains, but rarely counted in the various censuses at the time. Whether Mexican loyalist or Texas patriot, elite planter or subsistence farm wife, slaveholder or slave, Anglo or black, women helped settle the Texas frontier and experienced the uncertainty, hardships, successes, and sorrows of the Texas Revolution.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Continuity, change, and removal: native women and the Texas Revolution / by Lindy Eakin
Tejanas: Hispanic women on the losing side of the Texas Revolution / by Jean A. Stuntz
"Joys and sorrows of those dear old times": Anglo-American women during the era of the Texas Revolution / by Mary L. Scheer
Traveling the wrong way down freedom's trail: Black women and the Texas Revolution / by Angela Boswell
Two silver pesos and a blanket: the Texas Revolution and the non-combatant women who survived the Battle of the Alamo / by Dora Elizondo Guerra
"Up buck! up ball! do your duty!": women and the runaway scrape / by Light Townsend Cummins
"To the devil with your glorious history!": women and the Battle of San Jacinto / by Jeffrey D. Dunn
Women and the Texas Revolution in history and memory / by Laura Lyons McLemore.

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