Las Tejanas : : 300 Years of History / / Ruthe Winegarten, Teresa Palomo Acosta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Acosta, Teresa Palomo,; Winegarten, Ruthe,
• MitwirkendeR: Orozco, Cynthia E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. Native Women, Mestizas, and Colonists --; CHAPTER TWO. The Status of Women in the Colonial Period --; CHAPTER THREE. From the Republic of Texas to 1900 --; CHAPTER FOUR. Revolution, Racism, and Resistance: 1900 –1940 --; CHAPTER FIVE. Life in Rural Texas: 1900 –1940 --; CHAPTER SIX. Life in Urban Texas: 1900 –1940 --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Education: Learning, Teaching, Leading --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Entering Business and the Professions --; CHAPTER NINE. Faith and Community --; CHAPTER TEN. Politics, the Chicano Movement, and Tejana Feminism --; CHAPTER ELEVEN. Winning and Holding Public Office --; CHAPTER TWELVE. Arts and Culture --; EPILOGUE. Grinding Corn --; APPENDIX 1. Fifty Notable Tejanas --; APPENDIX 2. Time Line --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292797697; 9783110745344
• DOI: 10.7560/747104
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ruthe Winegarten, Teresa Palomo Acosta.

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 businesswomen, experienced professionals, and highly original artists. Giving their achievements the recognition they have long deserved, this groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas' contributions to Texas over three centuries. The authors have gathered and distilled a wide range of information to create this important resource. They offer one of the first detailed accounts of Tejanas' lives in the colonial period and from the Republic of Texas up to 1900. Drawing on the fuller documentation that exists for the twentieth century, they also examine many aspects of the modern Tejana experience, including Tejanas' contributions to education, business and the professions, faith and community, politics, and the arts. A large selection of photographs, a historical timeline, and profiles of fifty notable Tejanas complete the volume and assure its usefulness for a broad general audience, as well as for educators and historians.