Grace and gumption
Subtitle: the women of El Paso
By: edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780875654300
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; Biography; History
Description: Grace & Gumption: The Women of El Paso explores women's history in El Paso. From the earliest settlers to modern-day lawyers, journalists, social activists, and entrepreneurs, the women of El Paso influenced the vibrant community that thrives in the shadow of the Franklin Mountains.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The artists and their muses / by Adair Margo; title: More than good works / by Mimi R. Gladstein; title: Healing the borderlands across the centuries / by Yolanda Leyva; title: They marched to a different drummer / by Nancy Miller Hamilton; title: Para la comunidad : for the community / by Irasema Coronado; title: They gave us their words : El Paso women writers / by Lois Marchino; title: Making the desert bloom : education in El Paso / by Deane Mansfield-Kelley; title: Women feeding El Paso / by Meredith Abarca; title: Las comadres : the oral historians / by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Susan Goodman Novick; title: Inasmuch as you have done it  unto one of the least / by Lucy Fischer-West; title: Women penning revolutions great and small / by Brenda Risch; title: From nuns to suffragettes : women pioneers in medicine / by Evelyn Posey; title: Minding their business : from dairies to ballgowns / by Susan Goodman Novick.