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  • - California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement
    af Kathleen A. Cairns
    228,95 kr.

    At Home in the World examines the extraordinary and largely unheralded role women played in forging the modern environmental movement, specifically in California.

  • af Kathleen A. Cairns
    218,95 kr.

    Looks at the lives and careers of women who worked in the male-dominated profession of journalism. The author examines the roles women played in early-twentieth-century newspaper journalism and the influence they had on future generations of newspaperwomen through the examples of Agness Underwood, Charlotta Bass, and Ruth Finney.

  • - Gender, Politics, and the California Courts
    af Kathleen A. Cairns
    383,95 kr.

  • - California's First Women's Prison
    af Kathleen A. Cairns
    413,95 kr.

    The California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, pitted those who viewed rehabilitating female inmates as crucial to creating community bonds against critics who derided the coddling of hardened criminals, no matter what their gender. The controversy doomed the prison. This book argues that this failure does not negate its historical importance.

  • - Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America
    af Kathleen A. Cairns
    273,95 kr.

    Cairns examines how Graham's case became a touchstone in the on-going debate over capital punishment

  • - The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison
    af Kathleen A. Cairns
    178,95 kr.

    Tells the tale of Nellie May Madison, the first woman on Death Row in California. This story offers a glimpse into law and disorder in 1930s Los Angeles and presents a remarkable character whose plight focuses on the status of women, the workings of the media and the judiciary system, and the stratification of society in her time.