| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940. By Rebecca Sharpless. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxvi, 319 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 0-8078-2456-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-4760-7.)

In Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices, Rebecca Sharpless examines the daily lives of women on Texas cotton farms in the first half of the twentieth century. Her focus on women who are poor sharecroppers brings to the fore a group that has not been studied adequately by scholars of rural women or southern history. Sharpless makes excellent use of oral histories to describe the shared poverty and hard labor of these women. However, she also examines differences among women in Texas agriculture, including Anglo-Americans, Czech and German immigrants, African Americans, and Mexican Americans and immigrants, and she discusses the full range of class experiences from farm ownership to day and migrant labor. . . .

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