California women and politics : from the gold rush to the Great Depression / edited by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, Ann Marie Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cherny, Robert W.

Irwin, Mary Ann, 1955-

Wilson, Ann Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--California.

Women.

California--Politics and government.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "I Do Not Like the White Man . . . He Is a Liar and a Thief": Testimonies and the Politics of Resistance; 2. "GOING ABOUT AND DOING GOOD": The Lady Managers of San Francisco, 1850-1880; 3. "WOMAN IS EVERYWHERE THE PURIFIER": The Politics of Temperance, 1878-1900; 4. "Continually Doing Good": The Philanthropy of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1862-1919; 5. "Neutral Territory": The Politics of Settlement Work in San Francisco, 1894-1906

6. "CITIZEN BIRD"" :California Women and Bird Protection, 1890-19207. SAVING REDWOODS: Clubwomen and Conservation, 1900-1925; 8. THE CIVITAS OF WOMEN'S POLITICAL CULTURE: The Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley, 1904-1929; 9. "WE WANT THE BALLOT FOR VERY DIFFERENT REASONS": Clubwomen, Union Women, and the Internal Politics of the Suffrage Movement, 1896-1911; 10. "AWED BY THE WOMEN'S CLUBS"Women Voters and Moral Reform, 1913-1914; 11. "WE ARE NOT KEEN ABOUT THE MINIMUM WAGE"Union Women, Clubwomen, and the Legislated Minimum Wage, 1913-1931

12. "NO UNDUE FAMILIARITY" Gender, Vice, and the Campaign to Regulate Dance Halls, 1911-192113. "HEARTS BRIMMING WITH PATRIOTISM": Katherine Edson, Alice Park, and the Politics of War and Peace, 1914-1921; 14. HISTORIANS, POLITICS, AND CALIFORNIA WOMEN; THE CONTRIBUTORS; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613129246

9781283129244

1283129248

9780803236080

0803236085

OCLC:

781451341