| Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880-1940 Contributor(s): Simpson, Lee M. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804748756 ISBN-13: 9780804748759 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2004 Annotation: " Thoroughly researched, this book will be of considerable interest to a broad range of scholars....All in all, this book is valuable both for its substantial accomplishments and for the questions it raises." -- American Historical Review " [An] engrossing study of the historic role women have played in shaping California cities..." California History |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 2003027045 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.98" W x 9.3" (0.98 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - California - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book reveals the means by which property-owning middle class women achieved entry into the male dominated sphere of urban planning. It suggests that women in California were not limited in their public life. Instead, they embraced the middle class ideology of propertied self-interest and participated to the fullest extent possible in the urban struggle for regional dominance that shaped this period of western history. |