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Colorado Women is the first full-length chronicle of the lives, roles, and contributions of women in Colorado from prehistory through the modern day. A national leader in women's rights, Colorado was one of the first states to approve suffrage and the first to elect a woman to its legislature. Nevertheless, only a small fraction of the literature on Colorado history is devoted to women and, of those, most focus on well-known individuals.

The experiences of Colorado women differed greatly across economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds. Marital status, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation colored their worlds and others' perceptions and expectations of them. Each chapter addresses the everyday lives of women in a certain period, placing them in historical context, and is followed by vignettes on women's organizations and notable individuals of the time.

Native American, Hispanic, African American, Asian and Anglo women's stories hail from across the state--from the Eastern Plains to the Front Range to the Western Slope--and in their telling a more complete history of Colorado emerges. Colorado Women makes a significant contribution to the discussion of women's presence in Colorado that will be of interest to historians, students, and the general reader interested in Colorado, women's and western history.

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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xv
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  1. 1. Early Women
  2. pp. 1-15
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  1. 2. Pioneering Women
  2. pp. 17-44
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  1. 3. Making a Difference
  2. pp. 45-64
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  1. 4. Settling In
  2. pp. 65-95
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  1. 5. Organizing for Change
  2. pp. 97-121
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  1. 6. Breaking with Tradition
  2. pp. 123-156
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  1. 7. The Progressive Era
  2. pp. 157-180
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  1. 8. Conformity and Change
  2. pp. 181-213
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  1. 9. The Great Depression
  2. pp. 215-241
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  1. 10. Stepping Up
  2. pp. 243-264
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  1. 11. Conformity and Change, Take Two
  2. pp. 265-286
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  1. 12. The Modern Era
  2. pp. 287-310
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 311-348
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  1. Further Reading
  2. pp. 349-355
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 357-380
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