California women and politics : from the gold rush to the Great Depression

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California women and politics : from the gold rush to the Great Depression

edited by Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, Ann Marie Wilson

University of Nebraska Press, c2011

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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