List of Illustrations 000
Preface and Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
1. "I Do Not Like the White Man . . . He Is a Liar and a Thief": Testimonios and the Politics of Resistance 000
Linda Heidenreich
2. "Going About and Doing Good": The Lady Managers of San Francisco, 18501880 000
Mary Ann Irwin
3. "Woman Is Everywhere the Purifier": The Politics of Temperance, 18781900 000
Joshua Paddison
4. "Continually Doing Good": The Philanthropy of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 18621919 000
Mildred Nichols Hamilton
5. "Neutral Territory": The Politics of Settlement Work in San Francisco, 18941906 000
Ann Marie Wilson
6. "Citizen Bird": California Women and Bird Protection, 18901920 000
Michelle Kleehammer
7. Saving Redwoods: Clubwomen and Conservation, 19001924 000
Cameron Binkley
8. The Civitas of Women's Political Culture: The Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley, 19041929 000
Sandra L. Henderson
9. "We Want the Ballot for Very Different Reasons": Clubwomen, Union Women, and the Internal Politics of the Suffrage Movement, 18961911 000
Susan Englander
10. "Awed by the Women's Clubs": Women Voters and Moral Reform, 19131914 000
Teresa Hurley and Jarrod Harrison
11. "We Are Not Keen about a Minimum Wage": Union Women, Clubwomen, and the Legislated Minimum Wage, 19131931 000
Rebecca J. Mead
12. "No Undue Familiarity": Gender, Vice, and the Campaign to Regulate Dance Halls, 19111921 000
Mark Hopkins
13. "Hearts Brimming with Patriotism": Katherine Edson, Alice Park, and the Politics of War and Peace, 19141921
Eunice Eichelberger
14. Historians, Politics, and California Women 000
Mary Ann Irwin
Contributors 000
Index 000
Explores the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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.
"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
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