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After the vote : feminist politics in La Guardia's New York / Elisabeth Israels Perry.
LIBRA JS1228 .P47 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Elisabeth Israels, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal officials and employees--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Municipal officials and employees.
- Women in the civil service--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Women in the civil service.
- Women--Political activity--New York (State)--New York.
- Women.
- Politics and government.
- Women--Political activity.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Profile: Pearl Bernstein: a woman in New York politics
- Precedents
- Part I: At the margins. Negotiating partisanship
- Sustaining feminist progressivism
- Part II: Moving toward the center. Scandal in the courts
- Fallout
- The women of the administration
- The election of 1937 and beyond
- Part III: Looking forward
- Legacy
- Appendix: "Fifty women and one man: a play in three scenes and one axe".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199341849
- 0199341842
- OCLC:
- 1076550681
- Publisher Number:
- 40029059898
- 99980624448
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