Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)Winner, Liz Carpenter Award For Research in the History of Women, Texas State Historical Association, 2010 Texas women broke barriers throughout the twentieth century, winning the right to vote, expanding their access to higher education, entering new professions, participating fully in civic and political life, and planning their families. Yet these major achievements have hardly been recognized in histories of twentieth century Texas. By contrast,