Women of the Range: Women's Roles in the Texas Beef Cattle Industry (Ellen C. Temple Classics in the Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the)

ELIZABETH MARET is the author of Women’s Career Patterns: Influences on Work Stability.

The women in ranch-related business include Cindy Warnke Walls, the owner of a "fitting" service that grooms show cattle; Becky Everette, who evaluates bull semen; and Heddy Butler, who has innovated the use of computer technology in cattle breeding. But Maret has a knack for making these interesting women seem unremarkable. View it as a tool." Photos not seen by PW. She quotes Butler spouting the obvious, "The computer is tough. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Maret, a sociologist and rancher, brings up

Rural sociologists and historians alike will find Maret’s study a valuable reference and a spur to further research.”        —Southwestern Historical Quarterly “a valuable contribution to women’s studies and the sociology of occupations.”—Contemporary Sociology “ .Maret’s greatest contribution may be the quantification of women’s involvement and comparison of data for farm women with that for ranch women this is an impressive and ground-breaking work.”—Western Historical Quarterly “Elizabeth Maret has blown big holes in the theory that it was bidness men who single-handedly tamed the West and built the Texas cattle industry. “Primarily descriptive, this study raises issues of gender, ethnicity, and class which should stimulate further research. Women of the Range is a great addition to any Texan’s library.”—Wichita Falls Times Record News