Women in the life of southern California
By: edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. ; pictorial editor, Jennifer A. Watts.
Contributors: Nunis, Doyce Blackman.; Watts, Jennifer A.
Series: Southern California anthologies ;; 4th
Publisher: Historical Society of Southern California
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Women -- California -- History.; Women pioneers -- California -- History.
Notes: An anthology compiled from Southern California quarterly.
Table of contents: title: Gente de razón marriage patterns in Spanish and Mexican California : a case study of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.  Hispano-Mexican child-rearing practices in pre-American Santa Barbara  / Gloria E. Miranda; title: A California girlhood : reminiscences of Ascension Sepulveda y Avila / Sister Mary Joanne Wittenburg; title: Women in California in the early 1850s / Christiane Fischer; title: After slavery : Caroline Severance in Los Angeles / Joan M. Jensen; title: Kate Douglas Wiggin : a woman of letters / Henry James Forman; title: Helen Hunt Jackson : official agent to the California Mission Indians / Valerie Sherer Mathes; title: Mary Austin : Kern County days, 1888-1892 / Donald P. Ringler; title: Margaret Collier Graham : first lady of the foothills / Jane Apostol; title: Nellie Suydam of Glendora : diary of an ordinary women / Hilda Bohem; title: Helena Modjeska and the Francisco Torres affair, summer 1892 / Ellen K. Lee; title: "Apostle of the Cacti" : the society matron as environmental activist / Conner Sorensen; title: Forgotten woman of the Arroyo : Olive Percival / Linda Popp Di Biase; title: Why women should not have the vote : anti-suffrage views in the southland in 1911 / Jane Apostol; title: The Friday Morning Club : a Los Angeles legacy / Thelma Lee Hubbell and Gloria Ricci Lothrop; title: Madame Schumann-Heink : San Diego's diva / Richard W. Amero; title: Imagine the unimaginable : Helen Gahagan Douglas, women, and the bomb / Colleen M. O'Connor; title: Strength made stronger : the role of women in southern California philanthropy / Gloria Ricci Lothrop.