| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | ix |
| INTRODUCTION | xi |
| Part One SOCIAL REFORM AND SUFFRAGE IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900–1920 | 1 |
| URBANIZATION AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | 3 |
| STRIKES AND LABOR ACTIVISM | 5 |
| EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONALISM | 7 |
| MOTHERHOOD AND SOCIAL HOUSEKEEPING | 9 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH: CLEANING UP THE FOOD SUPPLY | 11 |
| MATERNALIST LEGISLATION: CHILD LABOR, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, AND MOTHERS’ PENSIONS | 13 |
| CLAIMING URBAN SPACE: SETTLEMENT HOUSES AND PROSTITUTION DISTRICTS | 16 |
| THE BOUNDARIES OF RACE | 18 |
| IMMIGRATION AND REVOLUTION IN THE BORDERLANDS | 21 |
| VOTES FOR WOMEN | 25 |
| THE POLITICS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE | 27 |
| SUFFRAGE IN BLACK AND WHITE | 31 |
| SUGGESTED REFERENCES | 34 |
| DOCUMENTS | 37 |
| Part Two POST-SUFFRAGE POLITICS, DEPRESSION, AND WAR, 1920–1945 | 61 |
| RURAL LIFE | 61 |
| THE NEW WOMAN IN POLITICS | 65 |
| “FEMALE” POLITICS AND THE “PETTICOAT” LOBBY | 69 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Texas through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience.
Contributors: Judith N. McArthur - Author, Harold L. Smith - Author.
Publisher: University of Texas Press.
Place of publication: Austin, TX.
Publication year: 2010.
Page number: v.
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