Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
by Sharpless, RebeccaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary
This moving account illustrates the centrality of women's efforts to the welfare -- even survival -- of their families on the cotton farms of central Texas.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Women, Cotton, and the Crop-Lien System | |
| Women, Daughters, Wives, Mothers: Gender and Family Relationships | |
| Keeping Warm, Keeping Dry: Housekeeping and Clothing in the Blackland Prairie | |
| Living at Home: Food Production and Preparation in the Blackland Prairie | |
| Making a Hand: Women's Labor in the Fields | |
| Life Beyond the Farm: Women and Their Communities | |
| Staying or Going: Urbanization and the Depopulation of the Rural Blackland Prairie | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index Maps | |
| Major physical features of the Blackland Prairie of Texas Counties of the Blackland | |
| Prairie of Texas Moves of the Rice family, Hunt County, Texas Illustrations | |
| Spring plowing, Williamson County Mother and children at a cotton wagon, Kaufman County Board and batten tenant farmer's house, Ellis County Landowner's daughter weighing cotton | |
| Kaufman County African American church on the open prairie, Ellis County | |
| Tables | |
| Number of Tenants and Landowners in Four Blacklands Counties, 1900-1940 | |
| Average Age of Farmers' Wives at First Marriage in Four Blacklands Counties, by Ethnic Group, 1900 and 1910 | |
| Average Number of Births and Surviving Children Born to Farmers' Wives under Age | |
| Forty-Five in Four Blacklands Counties, by Ethnic Group, 1900 and 1910 | |
| Months of Field Work Women Performed Per Year, by Ethnic Group | |
| Percentage of Women Performing Farming Tasks, by Ethnic Group, in Hill County, 1921 | |
| Literacy Rates for Women under Age Forty-Five in Four Blacklands Counties, by Ethnic Group, 1900 and 1910 | |
| Change in Numbers of Tenants and Farm Owners in Four Blacklands Counties, 1930 and 1940 | |
| Population Growth of Towns in Four Blacklands Counties, 1900-1940 | |
| Population Growth of Major Blacklands Cities, 1900-1940 | |
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