Learn More – Sources for Research into Texas Women's History

Note: The following list is meant to serve as a guide for researchers, and not a comprehensive listing of sources.

Members of the Gamma Pi Beta chapter of the Texas Association of
Women's Clubs, early 1940s. The Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's
University.

Books on Texas Women's History

General Texas Women's History
African American Women
Tejanas
Early Texas
Suffrage, Politics, Reform, Women's Rights
Urban and Regional Histories
Literature, Fashion, Sports

Books – General Texas Women's History

Abernathy, Francis Edward, ed. Legendary Ladies of Texas. 2nd ed. Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 43. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1994.
Crawford, Ann Fears. Women in Texas: Their Lives, Their Experiences, Their Accomplishments. 1st ed. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1982.
Malone, Ann Patton. "Women in Texas History." In A Guide to the History of Texas, edited by Light Townsend Cummins and Alvin R. Bailey, Jr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Texas Women, A Celebration of History. 2nd ed. Austin: Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, 1986, 1981.
Rogers, Mary Beth, Sherry A. Smith, and Janelle D. Scott. We Can Fly, Stories of Katherine Stinson and Other Gutsy Texas Women. 1st ed. Austin, Tex.: E.C. Temple: Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, 1983.

Two Texas women enjoy leisure time at home.
The Woman's Collection, Texas Woman's
University.

Winegarten, Ruthe. Governor Ann Richards & Other Texas Women: From Indians to Astronauts. 2nd ed. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1993. (See other books and works by Winegarten on Texas women's history held at UT Libraries.)
Winegarten, Ruthe. Finder's Guide to the Texas Women, A Celebration of History Exhibit Archives. 1st ed. Denton, Tex.: Texas Woman's University Library, 1984.
Winegarten, Ruthe, ed. Texas Women's History Project Bibliography. Austin, Tex.: Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, 1980.
Women and Texas History: An Archival Bibliography. Austin: Distributed by the Texas State Historical Association, 1990. Organized by library and then alphabetically. Includes a list of addresses and phone numbers for archives in Texas.
Women and Texas History: Selected Essays. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993.

African American Women

Blackwelder, Julia, Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training During Segregation. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
Glasrud, Bruce A. and Merline Pitre, eds. Black Women in Texas History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Reid, Debra, Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Winegarten, Ruthe. Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Winegarten, Ruthe. Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook : Documents, Biographies, Timeline. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

Tejanas

Acosta, Teresa Palomo and Ruthe Winegarten. Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

Rafaela Muniz Esquivel served as a nurse during
World War II in the U.S. and Europe. Courtesy of
the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project,
University of Texas at Austin.

Cotera, Martha. Diosa y hembra: The History and Heritage of Chicanas in the U.S. Austin: Information Systems Development, 1976. (See other books and works by Martha Cotera on Tejana women's history and issues held at UT Libraries.)
Orozco, Cynthia E. No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming in 2009.

Early Texas

Barr, Juliana, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Boswell, Angela. Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-73, Texas A&M University Press, 2001. A chronicle of women in Colorado County.
Burnett, Georgellen K. We Just Toughed It Out: Women in the Llano Estacado. El Paso: University of Texas at El Paso, 1990.
Cheeseman, Bruce S. ed., Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002.
Cutrer, Emily. The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Gould, Florence C. Claiming Their Land: Women Homesteaders in Texas. El Paso, Tex.: Texas Western Press, 1991.
Enstam, Elizabeth York, Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Exley, Jo Ella Powell. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women. 1st ed. Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University.; no. 17. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.
King, C. Richard, The Lady Cannoneer: A Biography of Angelina Belle Peyton Eberly, Heroine of the Texas Archives War. 1st ed. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1981.
Malone, Ann Patton. Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-cultural Perspective. [El Paso]: Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, 1983.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle: Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880. 1st ed. The Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series; no. 5. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
Massey, Sara R. Massey, ed., Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006.
McCroskey, Vista Kay. Plain Folk in Texas, 1821-1860: A Social History. 1990.
Ragsdale, Crystal Sasse. The Golden Free Land: the Reminiscences and Letters of Women on an American Frontier. Austin, Tex.: Landmark Press, 1976.
Ruff, Ann. Outlaws in Petticoats and Other Notorious Texas Women. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1995.
Russell, Charles H. Undaunted. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [biography of Norwegian immigrant Elise Warenskjold]
Stuntz, Jean A. Hers, His, and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain & Early Texas. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005.
Yabsley, Suzanne. Texas Quilts, Texas Women. 1st ed. Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University; no. 16. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.

Suffrage, Politics, Reform, Women's Rights

Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin, Pioneer Woman Educator: The Progressive Spirit of Annie Webb Blanton. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.
García, Sonia R., Valerie Martínez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon A. Navarro, and Patricia A. Jaramillo. Politicas: Latina Public Officials in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008.
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press,1979.
Humphrey, Janet G. A Texas Suffragist: Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum. Austin, Tex.: Ellen C. Temple, 1988.
Jackson, Emma Louise Moyer. Petticoat Politics: Political Activism Among Texas Women in the 1920's. [microform]. 1980.
Jones, Nancy Baker and Ruthe Winegarten, Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000.
Lazarou, Kathleen Elizabeth. Concealed Under Petticoats: Married Women's Property and the Law of Texas, 1840-1913. New York: Garland, 1986.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Champaign, Ill: Illinois University Press, 1998.
McArthur, Judith and Hall Smith, Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. Oxford University Press, 2003.
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Payne, Darwin, Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.
Taylor, A. Elizabeth. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas: Essays. Austin, Tex.: Ellen C. Temple, 1987.
Tolleson-Rhinehart, Sue and Jeanie R. Stanley, Claytie and The Lady: Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.

Urban and Regional Histories

Turner, Elizabeth Hayes. Women, Culture and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Wallace, Patricia Ward. A Spirit So Rare: A History of the Women of Waco. Austin: Nortex Press, 1984

Literature, Fashion, Sports

McLemore, James, Texas Schoolgirl Basketball. [Austin, Tex.]: University Interscholastic League, 1976.
Mills, Betty J. Calico Chronicle: Texas Women and Their Fashions, 1830-1910. Lubbock, Tex: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
Raye Virginia Allen, Gordon Conway: Fashioning a New Woman, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Unrue, Darlene H. Unrue, Katherine Anne Porter. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2005.

Twentieth Century

Blackwelder, Julia. Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.
Sharpless, Rebecca, Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Young, Nancy Beck and Lewis L. Gould. Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff. Austin: Center for American History, 1997.