| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Judith N. McArthur. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893–1918. (Women in American History.) Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 1998. Pp. x, 199. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95.

"They dislike anything that savors of suffrage," a temperance worker wrote of Texas women in 1892 (p. 8). Yet by 1918, suffrage leaders were able—in four days—to gather signatures from ten thousand Dallas women who wanted the vote. In this well-researched and readable study, Judith N. McArthur traces the rise of Texas women's public culture from the first stirrings of the Women's Christian Temperance Union to full suffrage in the aftermath of World War I. . . .

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