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.

Books on Texas Women's History

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African American Women
American Indian Women
Arts, Fashion, Religion, Sports
Bibliographies and Archival Collections
Collective Biographies, Essay Collections, Overviews
European American Women
Frontier
Labor
Politics, Reform, Women's Rights
Rural
Tejanas
Urban

African American Women

Baum, Dale. Counterfeit Justice: The Judicial Odyssey of Texas Freedwoman Azeline Hearne. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.
Blackwelder, Julia, Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training During Segregation. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
Burrow, Rachel. "Juanita Craft: Desegregating the State Fair of Texas," Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (Number 1, 2005).
Curtin, Mary Ellen. "Barbara Jordan: The Politics of Insertion and Accommodation," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (Winter, 2004).
Glasrud, Bruce A. and Merline Pitre, eds. Black Women in Texas History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Glasrud, Bruce A. and Gregg Andrews. "Confronting White Supremacy: The African American Left in Texas, 1874-1974." In David O'Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, eds. The Texas Left: the Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010.
Hearon, Shelby and Barbara Jordan. Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait. New York: Doubleday, 1979.
Howard, Vicki. "The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (July, 1996).
Pitre, Merline. In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
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.
Robinson, Dorothy. The Bell Rings at Four: A Black Teacher's Chronicle of Change. Austin: Madrono Press, 1978.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero. Westminster, Maryland: Bantam, 1998.
Simond, Ada de Blanc. "The Discovery of Being Black: A Recollection," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (April, 1973).
Winegarten, Ruthe (with Annie Mae Hunt). I Am Annie Mae: An Extraordinary Black Texas Woman in Her Own Words. Austin: Rosegarden Press, 1983. Reprinted, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
______. Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
______. Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook : Documents, Biographies, Timeline. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Winegarten, Ruthe and Sharon Kahn. Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Winegarten, Ruthe (with Debbie Winegarten). Strong Family Ties: The Tiny Hawkins Story. Austin: SocioSights Press, 1998.
Winegarten, Ruthe (with Marc Sanders). The Lives & Times of Black Dallas Women. Austin: Eakin Press, 2002.

American Indian Women

Barr, Juliana. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Arts, Fashion, Religion, Sports

Brandimarte, Cynthia A. Inside Texas: Culture, Identity, and Houses, 1878-1920. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1991.
Gunning, Mother Patricia. To Texas with Love: A History of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1971.
Hegarty, Mary Loyola. Serving with Gladness: The Origin and History of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston, Texas. Houston and Milwaukee: Bruce, 1967.
LeCompte, Mary Lou. Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Pioneer Professional Athletes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
McLemore, James. Texas Schoolgirl Basketball. Austin: University Interscholastic League, 1976.
Mills, Betty J. Calico Chronicle: Texas Women and Their Fashions, 1830-1910. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1985.
Steinfeldt, Cecilia. Early Texas Furniture and Decorative Arts. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1973.
Sokolow, Jayme A. and Mary Ann Lamanna. "Women and Utopia: The Women's Commonwealth of Belton, Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (April, 1984).
Turner, Elizabeth Hayes. Women, Culture and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Yabsley, Suzanne. Texas Quilts, Texas Women. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.

Bibliographies and Archival Collections

Jones, Nancy Baker and Debbie Mauldin Cottrell, comps. Women and Texas History: An Archival Bibliography. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1990.
Winegarten, Ruthe, ed. Texas Women's History Project Bibliography. Austin: Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, 1980.
______. Finder's Guide to the Texas Women, A Celebration of History Exhibit Archives. Denton, Tex.: Texas Woman's University Library, 1984.

Collective Biographies, Essay Collections, Overviews

Abernethy, Francis Edward, ed. Legendary Ladies of Texas. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1994.
Beeman, Cynthia J. Women in Texas: They Made a Difference. Austin: Texas Historical Commission, 1989.
Bernhard, Virginia, Betty Brandon, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Theda Perdue, eds. Southern Women: Histories and Identities. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
______. Hidden Histories of Women in the New South. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.
Brooks, Elizabeth. Prominent Women of Texas. Akron: Werner Co., 1896.
Buenger, Walter L. and Arnoldo De León, eds. Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Cantrell, Gregg and Elizabeth Hayes Turner, eds. Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Carrington, Evelyn M., ed. Women in Early Texas. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1975. Reprinted with an introduction by Debbie Mauldin Cottrell, Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994.
Comer, Suzanne, ed. Common Bonds: Stories by and about Modern Texas Women. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1990.
Crawford, Ann Fears and Crystal Sasse Ragsdale. Women in Texas: Their Lives, Their Experiences, Their Accomplishments. Burnet, Texas: Eakin Press, 1982.
______. Texas Women: Frontier to Future. Austin: State House Press, 1998.
Downs, Fane. "Texas Women: History at the Edges." In Walter L. Buenger and Robert A. Calvert, eds. Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991.
Downs, Fane and Nancy Baker Jones, eds. Women and Texas History: Selected Essays. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993.
Ferrell, Mary D. and Elizabeth Silverthorne. First Ladies of Texas: The First One Hundred Years, 1836-1936. Belton, Texas: Stillhouse Hollow, 1976.
Ford, Ramona L. "'Why Spend Time on Women Grinding Corn?' Mainstreaming Women's History: A Texas Perspective," Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture (Spring/Summer, 1990).
Furman, Nicah S. "Texas Woman vs. the Texas Myth." In Ben Procter and Archie McDonald, eds. The Texas Heritage. St. Louis: Forum, 1980.
Malone, Ann Patton. "Women in Texas History." In Light T. Cummins and Alvin R. Bailey, Jr., eds. A Guide to the History of Texas. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Maret, Elizabeth. Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.
McArthur, Judith and Harold L. Smith. Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
Noggle, Anne. For God, Country, and the Thrill of it: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990.
Pickrell, Annie Doom. Pioneer Women of Texas. Austin, E.L. Steck, 1929. Reprinted, Austin: State House Press, 1991.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Texas Women, A Celebration of History. Austin: Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, 1981, 1986.
Rogers, Mary Beth, Sherry A. Smith, and Janelle D. Scott. We Can Fly, Stories of Katherine Stinson and Other Gutsy Texas Women. Austin: E.C. Temple, Texas Foundation for Women's Resources, 1983.

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Seligman, Claudie Dee. Texas Women: Legends in Their Own Time. Dallas: Hendrick-Long, 1989.
Sherrod, Katie, ed. Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2007.
Silverthorne, Elizabeth and Geneva Fulgham. Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Swain, Martha. "The Public Role of Southern Women." In Jo Anne V. Hawks and Shelia L. Skemp, eds. Sex, Race, and the Role of Women in the South. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1983.
Weiner, Hollace Ava. Jewish "Junior League": The Rise and Demise of the Fort Worth Council of Jewish Women. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed. One Woman, One Vote. Troutdale, Oregon: New Sage Press, 1995.
Willett, Donald and Stephen Curley, eds. Invisible Texans: Women and Minorities in Texas History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Winegarten, Ruthe (with Cathy Schechter). Deep in the Heart: The Lives and Legends of Texas Jews. Austin: Eakin Press, 1990.
Winegarten, Ruthe. Governor Ann Richards & Other Texas Women: From Indians to Astronauts. Austin: Eakin Press, 1993.
Wooten, Mattie Lloyd. "The Status of Women in Texas." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1941.

European American Women

Allen, Raye Virginia. Gordon Conway: Fashioning a New Woman. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Bernhard, Virginia. Ima Hogg: The Governor's Daughter. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1984. Reprinted, Denton: Texas State Historical Association, 2011.
Burns, Mamie Sypert. This I Can Leave You: A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.
Butterfield, Jack C. Clara Driscoll Rescued the Alamo: A Brief Biography. Austin: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 1961.
Cayleff, Susan E. Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
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.
Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin. Pioneer Woman Educator: The Progressive Spirit of Annie Webb Blanton. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.
Crawford, Ann Fears. Frankie: Mrs. R. D. Randolph and Texas Liberal Politics. Austin: Eakin Press, 2000.
Cummins, Light T. Emily Austin of Texas. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2009.
Cutrer, Emily. The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Dumont, Ella Elgar Bird. Autobiography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. Foreword by Emily Cutrer.
Fink, Rob. "Hermine Toblowsky, the Texas ELRA, and the Political Struggle for Women's Equal Rights," Journal of the American West (Summer, 2003).
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Holland, Ada Morehead. Brush Country Woman. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
Humphrey, Janet G. A Texas Suffragist: Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum. Austin: Ellen C. Temple, 1988.
Iscoe, Louise Kosches. Ima Hogg: First Lady of Texas, Reminiscences and Recollections of Family and Friends. Austin: Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, 1976.
Jackson, Sarah Ragland. Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005.
King, C. Richard. Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontieer: The Journal of Ann Raney Coleman. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
______. The Lady Cannoneer: A Biography of Angelina Belle Peyton Eberly, Heroine of the Texas Archives War. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1981.
King, Kelley M. Call Her a Citizen: Progressive-Era Activist and Educator Anna Pennybacker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010.
Koch, Etta (with June Cooper Price). Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Lea, Tom. Maud Durlin Sullivan, 1872-1944, Pioneer Southwestern Librarian. El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1962.
Machann, Clinton and Bedford Clark, eds. Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989.
Maverick, Mary. Memoirs. Rena Maverick Green, ed. San Antonio: Alamo Printing, 1921. Reprinted with an introduction by Sandra L. Myres, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
McArthur, Judith and Harold L. Smith. Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Paulissen, May Nelson and Carl McQueary. Miriam: The Southern Belle Who Became the First Woman Governor of Texas. Austin: Eakin Press, 1995.
Payne, Darwin. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.
Raggio, Louise. Texas Tornado: The Life of a Crusader for Women's Rights. New York: Citadel Press, 2003.
Rickman, Sarah Byrn. Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008.
Russell, Charles H. Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. [Biography of Elise Warenskjold].
Russell, Jan Jarboe. Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson. New York: Scribner, 1999.
Sallee, Shelley. "'The Woman of It': Governor Miriam Ferguson's 1924 Election," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (July, 1996).
Sheehy, Helen. Margo: The Life and Theatre of Margo Jones. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1989.
Unrue, Darlene H. Katherine Anne Porter. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2005.
Young, Nancy Beck and Lewis L. Gould. Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff. Austin: Center for American History, 1997.

Frontier

Andreadis, Harriette. "True Womanhood Revisited: Women's Private Writing in Nineteenth-Century Texas," Journal of the Southwest (Summer, 1989).
Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson, eds. The Women's West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Boethel, Martha and Melissa Hield, eds. The Women's West Teaching Guide: Women's Lives in the Nineteenth-Century American West. Sun Valley, Idaho: Coalition for Western Women's History and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1985.
Burnett, Georgellen K. We Just Toughed It Out: Women in the Llano Estacado. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1990.
Carroll, Mark M. Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Caughfield, Adrienne. True Women and Westward Expansion. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005.
Downs, Fane. "Tryels and Trubbles': Women in Early Nineteenth-Century Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly (July, 1986).
Enstam, Elizabeth York. "The Family." In Robert F. O'Connor, ed. Texas Myths. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.
Exley, Jo Ella Powell. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1985.
______. Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.
Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Gould, Florence C. Claiming Their Land: Women Homesteaders in Texas. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1991.
Henson, Margaret. Anglo-American Women in Texas, 1820-1850. American Press, 1982.
Jeffrey, Julie Roy. Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880. New York: Hill and Wang, 1979.
Jensen, Joan and Darlis Miller. "The Gentle Tamers Revisted: New approaches to the History of Women in the American West," Pacific Historical Review (May, 1980).
Leckie, Shirley Anne, ed. The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
Lopez, Rhonda Lashley. Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
Malone, Ann Patton. Women on the Texas Frontier: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983.
Massey, Sara R., ed. Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006.
Myers, Lois E., ed. Letters by Lamplight: A Woman's View of Everyday Life in South Texas, 1873-1883. Waco: Baylor University Press, 1991.
Myres, Sandra. Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.
______. "Women in the West." In Michael Malone, ed. Historians and the American West. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska press, 1983.
______. "Cowboys and Southern Belles." In Robert F. O'Connor, ed. Texas Myths. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986.
Ragsdale, Crystal Sasse. The Golden Free Land: the Reminiscences and Letters of Women on an American Frontier. Austin: Landmark Press, 1976.
Riley, Glenda. "Frontier Women." In Roger Nicholds, ed. American Frontier and Western Issues: A Historiographical Review. New York and London: Greenwood, 1986.
Ruff, Ann. Outlaws in Petticoats and Other Notorious Texas Women. Plano: Republic of Texas Press, 1995.
Stuntz, Jean A. Hers, His, and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain & Early Texas. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2005.
Vielé, Teresa Griffin. Following the Drum: A Glimpse of Frontier Life. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Reprinted with a foreword and bibliography by Sandra Myres, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Labor

Croxdale, Richard and Melissa Hield, eds. Women in the Texas Workforce: Yesterday and Today. Austin: People's History in Texas, 1979.
Downs, Fane. "Texas Women at Work." In Donald Whisenhunt, ed. Texas: A Sesquicentennial Celebration. Austin: Eakin Press, 1984.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Real Women and True Womanhood: Grassroots Organizing among Dallas Dressmakers in 1935," Labor Heritage (Spring, 1994).

Politics, Reform, Women's Rights

Boles, Janet K. The Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment: Conflict and the Decision Process. New York: Longman, 1979.
Enstam, Elizabeth York. "The Dallas Equal Suffrage Association, Political Style, and Popular Culture: Grassroots Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1913-1919," Journal of Southern History (November, 2002).
Faux, Marian. Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision That Made Abortion Legal. New York: Macmillan, 1988.
Fernea, Elizabeth W. and Marilyn P. Duncan. Texas Women in Politics. Austin: Foundation for Women's Resources, 1977.
Gilmour, Terry L. "A Difference: Women in the Texas Legislature." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1999.
Hunt, Sylvia Oates. "Challenging Patriarchy and Domesticity: Women Educators in Texas, 1840-1940." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington, 1992.
Jackson, Emma Louise Moyer. "Petticoat Politics: Political Activism Among Texas Women in the 1920's." Ph.D. dissertation, the University of Texas at Austin, 1980.
Janes, Daryl, ed. No Apologies: Texas Radicals Celebrate the '60s. Austin: Eakin Press, 1992.
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.
Martin, Patricia S. "Hidden Work: Baptist Women in Texas, 1880-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1982.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Champaign: Illinois University Press, 1998.
McArthur, Judith N. and Harold L. Smith. "Not Whistling Dixie: Women's Movements and Feminist Politics." In David O'Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, eds. The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010.
Morris, Celia. Storming the Statehouse: Running for Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein. New York: Scribner's, 1992.
Richards, Ann (with Peter Kobler). Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Rossinow, Doug. The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Seaholm, Megan. "Earnest Women: The White Women's Club Movement in Progressive Era Texas, 1880-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1988.
Tolleson-Rhinehart, Sue and Jeanie R. Stanley. Claytie and The Lady: Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Weddington, Sarah. A Question of Choice. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
Winegarten, Ruthe and Judith N. McArthur, eds. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas. Austin: Ellen C. Temple, 1987. Reprints A. Elizabeth Taylor, "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas," Journal of Southern History (May, 1951).

Rural

Barthelme, Marion K., ed. Women of the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Boswell, Angela. Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-73. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.
Craven, Patsy. Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Faragher, John Mack. "History from the Inside-Out: Writing the History of Women in Rural America." American Quarterly (Winter, 1981).
Foley, Neil. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle: Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
McCroskey, Vista Kay. "Plain Folk in Texas, 1821-1860: A Social History." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1990.
Sharpless, Rebecca. Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Sitton, Thad. Harder than Hardscrabble: Recollections of Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
Taylor, Pat Ellis. Border Healing Woman: The Story of Jewel Babb. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Revised 1994.

Tejanas

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

Rafaela Muniz Esquivel
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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.
______. The Chicana Feminist. Austin: Information Systems Development, 1977.
Coyle, Laurie, Gail Hershatter, and Emily Honig. Women at Farah: An Unfinished Story. El Paso: REFORMA, 1979.
Crimm, Caroline Castillo. DeLeón: A Tejano Family History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
DeLeón, Arnoldo. "More than a Somnolent Type: Tejanos Resist the Rule of Dominance." In David O'Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, eds. The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010.
DeLeón, Olga. Outstanding American Women of Mexican Descent. Austin: University of Texas, Center for Public School Ethnic Studies, 1973.
Dysart, Jane. "Mexican Women in San Antonio, 1830-1860: The Assimilation Process," Western Historical Quarterly (October, 1976).
Gammage, Judie. "Quest for Equality: An Historical Overview of Women's Rights Activism in Texas, 1890-1975." Ph.D. dissertation, North Texas State University, 1982.
García, Mario T. "The Chicana in American History: The Mexican Women of El Paso, 1880-1920: A Case Study," Pacific Historical Review (May, 1980).
______. Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
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.
Griswold del Castillo, Richard. La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.
Gutiérrez, José Angel, Michelle Meléndez, and Sonia Adriana Noyola, eds. Chicanas in Charge: Texas Women in the Public Arena. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2006.
Honig, Emily. "Women at Farah Revisited: Political Mobilization and Its Aftermath among Chicano Workers at El Paso," Feminist Studies (Summer, 1996).
Ledesma, Irene. "Unlikely Strikers: Mexican American Women and Strike Activity in Texas, 1919-1974." Ph. D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1992.
______. "Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism." Journal of Western History (Number 3, 1995).
Marquez, Benjamin. "Organizing Mexican-American Women in the Garment Industry: La Mujer Obrera," Women and Politics, (Number 1, 1995).
Mata, Jennifer Rebecca. "Creating a Critical Chicana Narrative: Writing the Chicanas at Farah into Labor History." Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, 2004.
Monday, Jane Clements and Frances Brannen Vick. Petra's Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Navarro, Sharon A. Latina Legislator: Letitia Van de Putte and the Road to Leadership. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Orozco, Aurora E. "Mexican Blood Runs through My Veins." In D. Leticia Galindo and María Dolores Gonzáles, eds. Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, Identity. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Orozco, Cynthia E. No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Pérez, Emma. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
______. Forgetting the Alamo–or–Blood Memory. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. This is a novel by a historian.
Ruiz, Vicki R. "By the Day or the Week: Mexicana Domestic Workers in El Paso." In Ruiz and Susan Tiano, eds. Women on the U.S.-Mexican Border: Responses to Change. Winchester, Mass.: Allen and Unwin, 1987.
______. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
______, ed. Las Obreras: Chicana Politics of Work and Family. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Reserch Center, 2000.
Vidal, Mirta. Chicanas Speak Out: Women, New Voice of La Raza. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1971.
Zamora, Emilio, Cynthia Orozco, and Rodolfo Rocha, eds. Mexican Americans in Texas History: Selected Essays. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2000.

Urban

Blackwelder, Julia. Women of the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984.
Enstam, Elizabeth York. Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Wallace, Patricia Ward. A Spirit So Rare: A History of the Women of Waco. Austin: Nortex Press, 1984.