Silk stockings & ballot boxes : women and politics in New Orleans, 1920-1963
Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes is a narrative history of organized, politically active white women in twentieth-century New Orleans. Viewing their involvement as a link between pre-1920s progressivism and 1960s feminism. Pamela Tyler tells how these upper- and middle-class women sought and exercised power at the state and local levels through lobbying, fund-raising, endorsements, watchdog activities, volunteer work, voting, and candidacy
Print Book, English, ©1996
University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, ©1996