Women in California's History

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This paper reviews Gullet's book on the history of the women's movement in California and explains how Gullet breaks up the history of the movement into stages and highlights. It discusses how the movement was forced to undergo a series of ideological and structural transformations to achieve a specific goal rather than manifest itself as the pure politics of a group of women unified across class lines.

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"This was not true of the beginnings of the women's rights movement in California, true?at the very beginning, the Californian movement took its lead from its first most notable figure, not a Californian, but the template of Susan B. Anthony, national feminist advocate. This period, the historian Gayle Gullett suggests, highlighted a specific aspect of the past of the women's rights movement, namely a kind of radical as opposed to the later forms of reform progressivism, albeit with a uniquely Californian emphasis. (102)."

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