California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression

Contents

CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1. “I Do Not Like the White Man . . . He Is a Liar and a Thief” Testimonios and the Politics of Resistance 1 linda heidenreich 2. “Going About and Doing Good” The Lady Managers of San Francisco, 1850–1880 27 mary ann irwin 3. “Woman Is Everywhere the Purifier” The Politics of Temperance, 1878–1900 59 joshua paddison 4. “Continually Doing Good” The Philanthropy of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1862–1919 77 mildred nichols hamilton 5. “Neutral Territory” The Politics of Settlement Work in San Francisco, 1894–1906 97 ann marie wilson 6. “Citizen Bird” California Women and Bird Protection, 1890–1920 123 michelle kleehammer 7. Saving Redwoods Clubwomen and Conservation, 1900–1925 151 cameron binkley 8. The Civitas of Women’s Political Culture The Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley, 1904–1929 175 sandra l. henderson vi 9. “We Want the Ballot for Very Different Reasons” Clubwomen, Union Women, and the Internal Politics of the Suffrage Movement, 1896–1911 209 susan englander 10. “Awed by the Women’s Clubs” Women Voters and Moral Reform, 1913–1914 237 teresa hurley and jarrod harrison 11. “We Are Not Keen about the Minimum Wage” Union Women, Clubwomen, and the Legislated Minimum Wage, 1913–1931 263 rebecca j. mead 12. “No Undue Familiarity” Gender, Vice, and the Campaign to Regulate Dance Halls, 1911–1921 289 mark hopkins 13. “Hearts Brimming with Patriotism” Katherine Edson, Alice Park, and the Politics of War and Peace, 1914–1921 309 eunice eichelberger 14. Historians, Politics, and California Women 339 mary ann irwin Contributors 369 Index 373 ...