| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 404 pages :) : illustrations |
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text file |
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OldControl:muse9780803236080. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Cont ents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "I Do Not Like the White Man ... He Is a Liar and a Thief": Testimonios 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. |
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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 ofthe 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. |
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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, Andcalifornia Women; The Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Political activity -- California.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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California. |
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California -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Wilson, Ann Marie.
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Irwin, Mary Ann, 1955-
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Cherny, Robert W.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cherny, Robert W. California Women and Politics : From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2011 9780803235038 |
| ISBN |
9780803236080 (electronic book) |
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0803236085 (electronic book) |
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9780803235038 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0803235038 |
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