{"product_id":"women-and-the-creation-of-urban-life-dallas-texas-18431920-centennial-series-of-the-association-of-former-students-texas-a-m-university-9780890967997","title":"Women and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A \u0026 M University)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWomen and the Creation of Urban Life: Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A \u0026amp; M University)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Enstam, Elizabeth York. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780890967997.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the history of Dallas, women have worked both alongside and apart from the men now remembered as the citys 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 citys physical structure, and affected the day-to-day lives of thousands of people.\n\nIn 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.\n\nAs Dallas evolved from a frontier town into a modern city, the varied facets of womens work revealed how their roles changed to shape, influence, and on occasion determine specific characteristics of urban life during times when female lives were supposed to be only private. The years after 1880, especially, opened a period of enormous change in womens roles in public life and in womens status in American society.\n\nEnstam traces the ways national trends were expressed at the local level and analyzes womens accomplishments and the importance of their work as they assumed community leadership in perpetuating the traditions, education, fine arts, and customs of\n\nthe larger culture, and in implementing Progressive principles in a specific community.\n\nEnstams contribution fills a void by examining womens lives and womens work within a changing urban context. Urban historians, scholars of womens studies, historians of women, and readers with a general interest in history will find that the significance of these womens accomplishments in Dallas have echoed throughout the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253728796725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0890967997","price":42.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780890967997_86251a37-a0b8-4b8a-af10-d2af0053b8c6.jpg?v=1779946749","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/women-and-the-creation-of-urban-life-dallas-texas-18431920-centennial-series-of-the-association-of-former-students-texas-a-m-university-9780890967997","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}