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dc.contributor.advisorSharpless, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorMay, Meredith Leeen_US
dc.coverage.spatialTexasen_US
dc.coverage.spatialHouston.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialTexasen_US
dc.coverage.spatialHouston.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-22T14:38:30Z
dc.date.available2017-05-22T14:38:30Z
dc.date.created2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.identifieraleph-004501531en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/17473
dc.description.abstractThe history of women in post-World War II America often focuses on conformity and a retrenchment of gender roles. Recent histories have complicated the portrait of women in postwar America, noting their participation in labor and civil rights. In order to add to the understanding of the opportunities and limits on women in the latter-half of the twentieth-century, this dissertation analyzes female business owners in Houston from 1945 to 1977. I contend that business ownership allowed post-World War II American women another option to the traditional choices of working in a low-paying pink-collar job or attending solely to domestic responsibilities. I also highlight the overlapping limitations placed on women from differing racial, social, ethnic, and economic backgrounds. I argue that due to early efforts at self-help and organization spearheaded by business owners, by the time the mainstream feminist movement reached Houston in the late 1960s, Houstonian women proved among the most active and most organized in the nation. For that reason, organizers chose Houston as the site for the National Womens Conference in 1977. Thus, a study of Houstons female business population has broader implications for the history of the womens rights movement.
dc.format.extent1 online resource (iv, 266 pages).en_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Onlineen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUMI thesis.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTexas Christian University dissertation.en_US
dc.subject.lcshWomen-owned business enterprises Texas Houston.en_US
dc.subject.lcshEntrepreneurship.en_US
dc.subject.lcshBusinesswomen Texas Houston.en_US
dc.subject.lcshFeminism United States History.en_US
dc.titleBuilding a business in the Bayou City: Houston and womens entrepreneurship, 1945-1977en_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of History
etd.degree.levelDoctoral
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentHistory
local.academicunitDepartment of History
dc.type.genreDissertation
local.subjectareaHistory
etd.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
etd.degree.grantorTexas Christian University


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