Women and the creation of urban life
Subtitle: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920
By: Elizabeth York Enstam.
Series: The Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ;; no. 72
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Women -- Texas -- Dallas -- History.; Women -- Employment -- Texas -- Dallas.; Women -- Texas -- Dallas -- Economic conditions.; Work and family -- Texas -- Dallas -- History.; City and town life -- Texas -- Dallas -- History.; Dallas (Tex.) -- History.; Dallas (Tex.) -- Social conditions.; Dallas (Tex.) -- Politics and government.
Description: Throughout the history of Dallas, women have worked both alongside and apart from the men now remembered as the city's founders and builders. In truth, women helped to create the definitive forms of urban life by establishing organizations and agencies that altered the responsibilities and functions of local government, amended the public conception of political issues, changed the city's physical structure, and affected the day-to-day lives of thousands of people.

In Women and the Creation of Urban Life, Elizabeth York Enstam examines how women stretched, redefined, and at times erased the essentially artificial boundaries between female and male, between "the private" and "the public" as aspects of human endeavor.

Enstam traces the ways national trends were expressed at the local level and analyzes women's accomplishments and the importance of their work as they assumed community leadership in perpetuating the traditions, education, fine arts, and customs of the larger culture, and in implementing Progressive principles in a specific community.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-275) and index.