Winning Their Place. Arizona Women In Politics. 1883-1950

HEIDI J OSSELAER

Publication: The University of Arizona Press, 2009, Tucson

Foreword by Governor Janet Napolitano. First edition. Signed by the author. 8vo. Gold cloth, black stamping on the spine, xviii, 218 pp.,contents, foreword, acknowledgements, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. This landmark book chronicles the participation of Arizona women in Arizona's early politics, incorporating impressive original research from the territorial years to the period after World War II. "She traces Arizona women's political activities from their participation in late nineteenth-century movements for woman suffrage and temperance reform to 1950, when they had “established themselves as legitimate politicians, drawing powerful committee assignments, introducing important legislation, and beginning the transition from minority status to that of equal partners in government." Fine in dust jacket.

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