More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women

More than Petticoats

by Greta Anderson

This book presents the biographies of ten amazing women from the history of the Lone Star State, including African-American pilot Bessie Coleman, silent film star and night club entertainer "Texas" Guinan, and rancher Molly Dyer Goodnight.

Sarah Bowman: The great western --
Martha White McWhirter: Sanctified feminist --
Cynthia Ann Parker: One who was found --
Mary Ann "Molly" Dyer Goodnight: Mother to the buffalo --
Sofie Herzog Huntington: Mother lode of stories --
Sara Estela Ramirez: Beautiful with qualities, spendid with virtues --
Ima Hogg: Patroness of Texas --
Jessie Daniel Ames: Antilynching crusader --
Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan: The Notorious race --
Bessie Coleman: Flying for the race

Genres: History, Nonfiction

117 pages, Paperback

First published July 2, 2013

About the author

Greta Anderson is the author of More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women and More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Wisconsin Women (both Globe Pequot Press). She is a reporter, editor and producer of community radio programs in central Iowa, and lives with her husband on a small acreage where she practices vegetable farming and other arts. She lives in Nevada, Iowa.

Reviews

[Bernie4444 · Rating 5 out of 5]

The women you should know

Focusing on Texas history we get to read about prominent women that may have been misplaced in general school text. We even get pictures of the women outlined in the book. See how many you know before reading and then after

Contents:
Sarah Bowman
Martha White McWhirter
Cynthia Ann Parker
Mary Ann "Molly" Dyer Goodnight
Sofie Herzog Huntington
Sara Estela Ramirez
Ima Hogg
Jessie Daniel Ames
Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan
Bessie Colman

[Crystal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ten brief biographies of women picked by a social studies textbook writer as "Remarkable Texas women" yet most were not Texan, spent most of their life out of the state or even had little, if any, allegience to Texas and the people of. With the exception of a couple, most of the figures are too odd, masculine, anti-feminine for my respect. Non-inspirational.
Written with too many "would have" and "probably" assumptions and apparent bias, I am so disappointed in this. Can't recommend.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

These mini bios make for good, light reading. I wish Anderson provided more dates for events, but she does include a bibliography for readers, like me, who need to know more. This second edition makes an effort to showcase a more diverse group of women but still includes only one black woman, no Native women (except for a white woman raised Comanche), and no (obviously) queer women.

[Mary Havens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the stories were good, some just o.k. I liked Ima Hogg, Bessie Coleman, Sarah Bowman and Martha White McWhirter's the best as they were the most interesting to me. The Cynthia Ann Parker story is heart breaking.
Recommended for those that love Texas History!

[Christa · Rating 4 out of 5]

These women have moxy!

[Penny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting compilation of "Texas" women - some were not actually born in Texas but became part of Texas history by moving to Texas. Others were born in Texas but became famous elsewhere.