# Studies in Rural Culture

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940

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A moving account of women's lives on Texas cotton farms during the first half of the 20th-century, this book reveals their substantial contributions to the southern agricultural economy and to family life.

Genres: HistoryAmerican History

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