California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression by Cherny, Robert W.

California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803235038)

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California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression by Cherny, Robert W.

California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression

$45.00
California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression by Cherny, Robert W.

California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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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 consider not only white middle-class women's organizing but also the politics of working-class women and women of color, emphasizing that there was not one monolithic "women's agenda," but rather a multiplicity of women's voices demanding recognition for a variety of causes.

Author: Robert W. Cherny
ISBN-10: 0803235038
ISBN-13: 9780803235038
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2011
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.10d

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By Robert W. Cherny
By Robert W. Cherny
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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 of several books and articles, including Women and Gender in the American West: Jensen-Miller Essays from the Coalition for Western Women's History. Ann Marie Wilson is a College Fellow and Lecturer on History at Harvard University. Her first journal article received the 2010 Fishel-Calhoun Prize of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Contributors: Cameron Binkley, Eunice Eichelberger, Susan Englander, Linda Heidenreich, Mildred Nichols Hamilton, Jarrod Harrison, Sandra L. Henderson, Mark Hopkins, Teresa Hurley, Mary Ann Irwin, Michelle Kleehammer, Rebecca Mead, Joshua Paddison, and Ann Marie Wilson.

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