Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-193) and index.
Contents:
Partisan and nonpartisan: the political career of Judith Ellen Foster, 1881-1910 / Melanie Gustafson -- Gender, class, and the transformation of electoral campaigns in the Gilded Age / Rebecca Edwards -- Redefining "The Political": socialist women and party politics in California, 1900-1920 / Sherry J. Katz -- Unseen influence: Lucretia Blankenburg and the rise of Philadelphia reform politics in 1911 / Drew E. VandeCreek -- "Women Demand Recognition": women candidates in Colorado's election of 1912 / Robyn Muncy -- African American women as political constituents in Chicago, 1913-1915 / Wanda A. Hendricks -- "Eager and Anxious to Work": Daisy Harriman and the presidential election of 1912 / Kristie Miller -- Mapping a national campaign strategy: partisan women in the presidential election of 1916 / Molly M. Wood -- Culture and strategy?: women in New York state parties, 1917-1930 / Anna L. Harvey -- Defying the party Whip: Mary Garrett Hay and the Republican Party, 1917-1920 / Elisabeth Israels Perry -- Evolution of a partisan: Emily Newell Blair and the Democratic party, 1920-1932 / Kathryn Anderson -- "Me for Ma": Miriam Ferguson and Texas politics in the 1920s and 1930s / Nancy Beck Young -- "There is No Sex in Citizenship": the career of Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn / Glenna Matthews -- Anna Wilmarth Ickes: a staunch woman Republican / Maureen A. Flanagan -- "She Is the Best Man on the Ward Committee": women in grassroots party organizations, 1930s-1950s / Paula Baker -- Soledad Chavez Chacon, Adelina Otero-Warren, and Concha Ortiz y Pino: three hispana politicians in New Mexico politics, 1920-1940 / Elizabeth Salas -- Legislated parity: mandating integration of women into California political parties, 1930s-1950s / Jaqueline R. Braitman.
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