California Women and Politics From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression |
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| Editor:
| Cherny, Robert W.
Irwin, Mary Ann
Wilson, Ann Marie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-3503-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.