An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their

This book explores women’s campaign strategies when they ran for state and national office in California from their first opportunity after state suffrage in

In 1880, Californians believed a woman safeguarded the Republic by maintaining a morally sound home. Scarcely forty years later, women in the state won full-fle

“This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies