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California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression
. Ed(S): Cherny, Robert W.; Irwin, Mary Ann; Wilson, Ann Marie
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Description for California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression
paperback. Explores the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Cherny, Robert W.; Irwin, Mary Ann; Wilson, Ann Marie. Num Pages: 424 pages, 18 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 540.
In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women’s political involvement in California’s public life did not begin with suffrage, nor did it end there. Across the state, women had been deeply involved in politics long before suffrage, and—although their tactics and objectives changed—they remained deeply involved thereafter. California Women and Politics examines the wide array of women’s public activism from the 1850s to 1929—including the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, trade unionism, settlement work, philanthropy, wartime volunteerism, and more—and reveals unexpected contours to women’s politics in California. The contributors ... Read more
In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women’s political involvement in California’s public life did not begin with suffrage, nor did it end there. Across the state, women had been deeply involved in politics long before suffrage, and—although their tactics and objectives changed—they remained deeply involved thereafter. California Women and Politics examines the wide array of women’s public activism from the 1850s to 1929—including the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, trade unionism, settlement work, philanthropy, wartime volunteerism, and more—and reveals unexpected contours to women’s politics in California. The contributors ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803235038
SKU
V9780803235038
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About . Ed(S): Cherny, Robert W.; Irwin, Mary Ann; Wilson, Ann Marie
Robert W. Cherny is a professor of history at San Francisco State University and the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books, including American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868–1900, and, with William Issel, of San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development. Mary Ann Irwin is an instructor in the California community college system and the author or coeditor ... Read more
Reviews for California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression
"California Women and Politics . . . provides a fine, detailed survey of the progressive involvement of women in politics in California. Any California collection, whether general or politically inclined, must have this."—California Book Watch "This is a well done anthology that will be useful, especially to students of California and women's history."—Julie Cohen, Western Historical Quarterly