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After a series of tragedies, including the deaths of her sister and mother, and her husband’s suicide, Holt and her sister’s children moved to California. [2] There, she married a widowed scientist named Theodore Heineman. [2] The Protective Agency for Women and Children was founded in 1886, and Holt was appointed as a supervisor.
This is a bibliography of California history. It contains English language (including translations) books and mainstream academic journal articles published after World War II. Inclusion criteria. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all works about California history. It is limited to works primarily or substantially about ...
Women's clubs flourished and turned a spotlight on issues such as public schools, dirt and pollution, and public health. California women were leaders in the temperance movement, moral reform, conservation, public schools, recreation, and other issues. They helped pass the 18th amendment, which established Prohibition in 1920. Initially, women ...
As a result, this rapid population increase required an increase in food production. Many bound laborers are thought to have been used in California's new agricultural economy. A majority of the laborers leased were Native women and children, who were leased in response to California's population shortage of white women and children.
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism; American Biology Teacher; Asian Survey; Boom: A Journal of California; California History; California Management Review; Civic Sociology; Classical Antiquity; Contemporary Arab Affairs; Current History; Departures in Critical Qualitative Research; Ethnic Studies Review; Federal ...
Some of California's sex workers were indentured Chinese women, economically and socially oppressed Latina women, or kidnapped and enslaved White women. From 1848 to the late 1850s, sex workers experienced an unprecedented decline in power and a rapid fall from grace as more "respectable" women and their families came to California.
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Women in the California gold rush; Women in the early East L. A. punk scene; Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County; Women's Center for Creative Work; The Women's Conference; Women's Home Missionary Society; Women's Improvement Club of Hueneme; Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast; Women's Museum of California; Women's WIRE; The ...