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

• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.9794082/09034
• Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - California
• Soggetto geografico: California Politics and government
• Altri autori: ChernyRobert W IrwinMary Ann <1955-> WilsonAnn Marie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Titolo autorizzato: California women and politics
• ISBN: 1-283-12924-8; 9786613129246; 0-8032-3608-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781335803321
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