Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

by Rebecca Sharpless

Book Overview

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house, sewing clothing, cultivating and cooking food, and bearing and raising children. But despite their contributions to the southern agricultural economy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847607
• ISBN13: 9780807847602
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"