Women Writing About Texas!

Texas, it's a whole different country and it has some of the greatest women around! - okay I am from Texas, actually sixth generation Texan, so I am a little prejudiced! :)

Just heard the news that about a new book - Women and the Texas Revolution

"Historically, wars and revolutions have offered politically and socially disadvantaged people the opportunity to contribute to the nation (or cause) in exchange for future expanded rights. Although shorter than most conflicts, the Texas Revolution nonetheless profoundly affected not only the leaders and armies, but the survivors, especially women, who endured those tumultuous events and whose lives were altered by the accompanying political, social, and economic changes.
While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, black, and Hispanic women of the time."

Chapter 2 -  Tejanas: Hispanic Women on the Losing Side of the Texas Revolution, is written by Dr. Jean Stuntz, a professor at West Texas A&M University  

Jean teaches Texas history, U.S. women's history, Spanish Southwest, historical methods, U.S. history surveys, and world history. She is involved in professional history organizations like the Texas State Historical Association, the Southern Association for Women Historians, and West Texas Historical Association as a board member and the book review editor for their Year Book. She was President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online in 2010. She was Faculty Senate resident for 2009-2010.

She is actively involved in research and publication. She is author of Hers, His, and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas, (2005), which won the La Presido Bahia and TOMFRA awards. She also authored a chapter on Minta Holmsley in Texas Women on the Cattle Trails, (2006), winner of the Liz Carpenter award, and her articles include "Women of the Texas Revolution" in the Social Studies Texan, (2007) and "Prairies to Progress: Women on the Texas Panhandle Frontier" also in the Social Studies Texan (2009). She also has articles in the West Texas Historical Association Year Book. She is currently working on a book about women pioneers of the Panhandle and would love to hear your stories.

Now before you judge Jean as been some stuffy ole History professor, you must realize she has a "lighter side", in fact she does have a work of Fiction that is in it's second or third (I can't keep up) printing!  It's called The Alamo and Zombies

I had to buy two copies, my youngest son STOLE mine and would not return it!