Rebecca A Sharple
Biographic Data
| ID | 915275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca A Sharple |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharple |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPLE R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2465-5063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
What is a city but its people”: Commentary on “Migration and peripheral urbanization: the case of the metropolitan zone of the valley of Mexico” by Raúl Delgado Wise, Francisco Caballero Anguiano and …
This commentary centres on themes of conquest, globalization, and inequality and argues that the article Migration and Peripheral Urbanization: The Case of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico can be understood as suggesting prescriptions for forward-looking socio-economic and migration policy. The article’s authors focus on the effects of neoliberalism on the Metropolitan Zone, explaining how globalization has dismantled domestic market…
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846
Two pots; a metate; an “old but good chest”; a house with stone walls, a thatched roof, and a kitchen of wood and straw: these were the worldly goods of Esmeregilda Hernández of San Fernando de Béxar (now San Antonio, Texas), which she bequeathed to her four living children in 1772. Although Hernández could not write, she requested that she be buried in the parish church “in the second section,” highlighting the importance of the Catholic Church …
LaGuana Gray. We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
Inspired by feminist writers Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde as well as the encouragement of poultry worker Janet Strong, LaGuana Gray accomplishes two goals in We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry. She documents the lives and work of African American women in poultry processing plants in Louisiana and Arkansas, and she firmly places those women within the framework of racial and gender oppressio…
Jessamyn Neuhaus. Housework and Housewives in Modern American Advertising: Married to the Mop
A lot of housekeeping advice sites these days indicate that all a housekeeper needs for cleaning are lemon juice, vinegar, and baking soda. If Americans followed that wisdom, an entire branch of the chemical industry would close down. American industry has long invested in the production and marketing of huge lines of toxic potions designed, first, to make a profit and second, to render a house “clean.” To ensure the success of the household chem…
Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York
"Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York." The Oral History Review, 40(2), pp. 456–457
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule, a collection of twelve essays, provides a potent counternarrative to the story of African Americans only as sharecroppers. These richly documented essays add depth and complexity to the little-known story of African American landowners, who struggled against not only racism but also social, economic, and political barriers (p. 30). African American farmers held significant amounts of land, and they used their status…
Agricultural History Roundtable Complicating the Story: Oral History and the Study of the Rural South: Lu Ann Jones, Adrienne Petty, Mark Schultz, Rebecca Sharpless, and Melissa Walker
Five historians who have used oral history to study the rural South assess the ways that oral history methodology and content have complicated our understanding of the region’s agricultural past. They explore two major themes: first, the ways that the information gathered in oral history interviews revealed the diversity and complexity of the rural South and second, how the dialectical process of the interview—the give and take between interviewe…
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950
Book Review| April 01 2008 Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950 Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. John Van Willigen and Anne Van Willigen. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 257–258. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.257 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca …
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
When Psyche A. Williams-Forson began to research Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs, she wanted to look at how chickens have played into “racist and stereotypical associations” with African Americans (p. 220). She has done that, but perhaps more importantly, her final result is also a declaration of African American women's need for “self-definition, self-actualization, and self-discovery” (ibid.). Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs is not just…
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression
Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians
Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
Book Review| July 01 2005 Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century. Sandra K. Schackel. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 373–374. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca …
The Bootlegger's Other Daughter
Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles
Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History
Book Review| October 01 2002 Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History. Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschly. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.739 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search S…
Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Journal Article Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940 Get access Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940. By Sharpless Rebecca. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxiii + 319 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Ann E. McCleary Ann E. McCleary State University of West Georgia Search for other works by this aut…
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Journal Article 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.) Get access Mary Neth Mary Neth University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, Jun…
The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms
Book Review| July 01 2000 The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. Stewart E. Tolnay. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 703–704. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.3.703 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Sharpless; Th…
The Rural South Since World War II
Journal Article The Rural South since World War II Get access The Rural South since World War II. Edited by Hurt R. Douglas. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. viii + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 1, Spring 2000, Pages …
Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury
Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
When Psyche A. Williams-Forson began to research Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs, she wanted to look at how chickens have played into “racist and stereotypical associations” with African Americans (p. 220). She has done that, but perhaps more importantly, her final result is also a declaration of African American women's need for “self-definition, self-actualization, and self-discovery” (ibid.). Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs is not just…
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule, a collection of twelve essays, provides a potent counternarrative to the story of African Americans only as sharecroppers. These richly documented essays add depth and complexity to the little-known story of African American landowners, who struggled against not only racism but also social, economic, and political barriers (p. 30). African American farmers held significant amounts of land, and they used their status…
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Agricultural History Roundtable Complicating the Story: Oral History and the Study of the Rural South: Lu Ann Jones, Adrienne Petty, Mark Schultz, Rebecca Sharpless, and Melissa Walker
Five historians who have used oral history to study the rural South assess the ways that oral history methodology and content have complicated our understanding of the region’s agricultural past. They explore two major themes: first, the ways that the information gathered in oral history interviews revealed the diversity and complexity of the rural South and second, how the dialectical process of the interview—the give and take between interviewe…
Hidden Histories of Women in the New South
Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland
Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Letters to the Southern Mercury
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Journal Article 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.) Get access Mary Neth Mary Neth University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, Jun…
The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms
Book Review| July 01 2000 The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms The Bottom Rung: African American Family Life on Southern Farms. Stewart E. Tolnay. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (3): 703–704. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.3.703 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca Sharpless; Th…
The Rural South Since World War II
Journal Article The Rural South since World War II Get access The Rural South since World War II. Edited by Hurt R. Douglas. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. viii + 202 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 1, Spring 2000, Pages …
Long Green: The Rise and Fall of Tobacco in South Carolina
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Journal Article Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940 Get access Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940. By Sharpless Rebecca. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxiii + 319 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.) Ann E. McCleary Ann E. McCleary State University of West Georgia Search for other works by this aut…
Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles
Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History
Book Review| October 01 2002 Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History. Kimberly D. Schmidt, Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschly. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 739–741. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-76.4.739 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search S…
The Bootlegger's Other Daughter
Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians
Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century
Book Review| July 01 2005 Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century Western Women’s Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century. Sandra K. Schackel. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 373–374. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca …
Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
When Psyche A. Williams-Forson began to research Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs, she wanted to look at how chickens have played into “racist and stereotypical associations” with African Americans (p. 220). She has done that, but perhaps more importantly, her final result is also a declaration of African American women's need for “self-definition, self-actualization, and self-discovery” (ibid.). Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs is not just…
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950
Book Review| April 01 2008 Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950 Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. John Van Willigen and Anne Van Willigen. Rebecca Sharpless Rebecca Sharpless Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 257–258. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.257 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Rebecca …
Agricultural History Roundtable Complicating the Story: Oral History and the Study of the Rural South: Lu Ann Jones, Adrienne Petty, Mark Schultz, Rebecca Sharpless, and Melissa Walker
Five historians who have used oral history to study the rural South assess the ways that oral history methodology and content have complicated our understanding of the region’s agricultural past. They explore two major themes: first, the ways that the information gathered in oral history interviews revealed the diversity and complexity of the rural South and second, how the dialectical process of the interview—the give and take between interviewe…
Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York
"Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York." The Oral History Review, 40(2), pp. 456–457
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule, a collection of twelve essays, provides a potent counternarrative to the story of African Americans only as sharecroppers. These richly documented essays add depth and complexity to the little-known story of African American landowners, who struggled against not only racism but also social, economic, and political barriers (p. 30). African American farmers held significant amounts of land, and they used their status…
Jessamyn Neuhaus. Housework and Housewives in Modern American Advertising: Married to the Mop
A lot of housekeeping advice sites these days indicate that all a housekeeper needs for cleaning are lemon juice, vinegar, and baking soda. If Americans followed that wisdom, an entire branch of the chemical industry would close down. American industry has long invested in the production and marketing of huge lines of toxic potions designed, first, to make a profit and second, to render a house “clean.” To ensure the success of the household chem…
LaGuana Gray. We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
Inspired by feminist writers Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde as well as the encouragement of poultry worker Janet Strong, LaGuana Gray accomplishes two goals in We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry. She documents the lives and work of African American women in poultry processing plants in Louisiana and Arkansas, and she firmly places those women within the framework of racial and gender oppressio…
Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846
Two pots; a metate; an “old but good chest”; a house with stone walls, a thatched roof, and a kitchen of wood and straw: these were the worldly goods of Esmeregilda Hernández of San Fernando de Béxar (now San Antonio, Texas), which she bequeathed to her four living children in 1772. Although Hernández could not write, she requested that she be buried in the parish church “in the second section,” highlighting the importance of the Catholic Church …
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
What is a city but its people”: Commentary on “Migration and peripheral urbanization: the case of the metropolitan zone of the valley of Mexico” by Raúl Delgado Wise, Francisco Caballero Anguiano and …
This commentary centres on themes of conquest, globalization, and inequality and argues that the article Migration and Peripheral Urbanization: The Case of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico can be understood as suggesting prescriptions for forward-looking socio-economic and migration policy. The article’s authors focus on the effects of neoliberalism on the Metropolitan Zone, explaining how globalization has dismantled domestic market…
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