In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women s political involvement in California s public life did not begin with suffrage, nor did it end there. Across the state, women had been deeply involved in politics long before suffrage, and although their tactics and objectives changed they remained deeply involved thereafter. California Women and Politics examines the wide array of women s public activism from the 1850s to 1929 including the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, trade unionism,...
In 1911 as progressivism moved toward its zenith, the state of California granted women the right to vote. However, women s political involvement in C...