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

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

Rebecca Sharpless

352 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 sh...

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