Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry

ISBN-13: 9780890965412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str.

Elizabeth Maret

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"Primarily descriptive, this study raises issues of gender, ethnicity, and class which should stimulate further research. . . . Rural sociologists and historians alike will find Maret's study a valuable reference and a spur to further research." --Southwestern Historical Quarterly

." . . a valuable contribution to women's studies and the sociology of occupations."--Contemporary Sociology

." . . Maret's] greatest contribution may be the quantification of women's involvement and comparison of data for farm women with that for ranch women . . . this is an impressive and ground-breaking work."--Western Historical Quarterly

"Elizabeth Maret has blown big holes in the theory that it was bidness men who single-handedly tamed the West and built the Texas cattle industry. Women of the Range is] a great addition to any Texan's library."--Wichita Falls Times Record News