Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury (Volume 67) (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089096775X ISBN 13: 9780890967751

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Women who lived in the white rural South in the late nineteenth century were not expected to voice political opinions. But they were not ignorant of the issues of the day, and in the Dallas-based Populist newspaper the Southern Mercury, they found a strong outlet for expression.

In Women in the Texas Populist Movement, Marion K. Barthelme presents more than a hundred letters from Texas farm women, who were becoming ever more alert to the political and economic forces impacting their lives. The agrarian reform movement was a major element of political life in Texas, and women's letters to the Texas Farmers' Alliance newspaper became increasingly passionate and forthright in expressing their concerns. The women discover a camaraderie through their letters—a recognition of their common aspirations and frustrations with a system that dismisses their experiences. Through the medium of writing, they express vibrant personalities and a pungent sense of humor.

Barthelme makes this lively correspondence accessible for the first time and brings these admirable women into a historical framework to give a more complete picture of Southern history.

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In Women in the Texas Populist Movement, Marion K. Barthelme presents more than a hundred letters from Texas farm women, who were becoming ever more alert to the political and economic forces impacting their lives. The agrarian reform movement was a major element of political life in Texas, and women's letters to the Texas Farmers' Alliance newspaper became increasingly passionate and forthright in expressing their concerns. The women discover a camaraderie through their letters - a recognition of their common aspirations and frustrations with a system that dismisses their experiences. Through the medium of writing, they express vibrant personalities and a pungent sense of humor.

About the Author

John B. Boles is William Pettus Hobby Professor of History at Rice University and Managing Editor of the "Journal of Southern History," His recent books include "The Irony of Southern Religion" (1994) and "The South Through Time: A History of an American Region" (second edition, 1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 089096775X
• ISBN 13: 9780890967751
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Barthelme Marion K.