Judith N. McArthur
Judith N. McArthur teaches history at the University of Houston-Victoria. She is the coauthor of Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics and A Gentleman and an Officer: The Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War.
Publications
Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics
The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governor, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the first American women to pursue a career in party politics. Cunningham's professional life spanned a half century, thus illuminating our understanding of women in public life between the Progressive Era and the 1960s feminist movement.
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Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth Century Experience
Texas women broke barriers throughout the twentieth century, winning the right to vote, expanding their access to higher education, entering new professions, participating fully in civic and political life, and planning their families. Yet these major achievements have hardly been recognized in histories of twentieth-century Texas. By contrast, Texas Through Women's Eyes offers a fascinating overview of women's experiences and achievements in the twentieth century, with an inclusive focus on rural women, working-class women, and women of color.
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