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Profile: Pearl Bernstein: A Woman in New York Politics -- Precedents -- Part 1: At the Margins -- Negotiating Partisanship -- Sustaining Feminist Progressivism -- Part 2: Moving toward the Center -- Scandal in the Courts -- Fallout -- The Women of the Administration -- The Election of 1937 and Beyond -- Part 3: Looking Forward -- Legacy -- Appendix: "Fifty Women and One Man: A Play in Three Scenes and One Axe"

It is commonly believed that women's entry into the political realm is a recent phenomenon. Originally published in 1992, Belle Moskowitz shatters that myth, restoring to history the career of a remarkable woman who achieved unprecedented influence and power in American politics many decades before the contemporary era. As political advisor to Alfred E. Smith, four-term governor of New York and presidential candidate. Moskowitz played a crucial role in both state and national politics throughout the 1920s. Elisabeth Israels Perry, who is Moskowitz's granddaughter, has thoroughly searched through private and public records to document Moskowitz's career, drawing as well on the reminiscences of Moskowitz's daughter Miriam Israels Gabo. This outstanding biography was co-winner of the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize in 1987.

Partisan and nonpartisan: the political career of Judith Ellen Foster, 1881-1910 / Melanie Gustafson -- Gender, class, and the transformation of electoral campaigns in the Gilded Age / Rebecca Edwards -- Redefining "The Political": socialist women and party politics in California, 1900-1920 / Sherry J. Katz -- Unseen influence: Lucretia Blankenburg and the rise of Philadelphia reform politics in 1911 / Drew E. VandeCreek -- "Women Demand Recognition": women candidates in Colorado's election of 1912 / Robyn Muncy -- African American women as political constituents in Chicago, 1913-1915 / Wanda A. Hendricks -- "Eager and Anxious to Work": Daisy Harriman and the presidential election of 1912 / Kristie Miller -- Mapping a national campaign strategy: partisan women in the presidential election of 1916 / Molly M. Wood -- Culture and strategy?: women in New York state parties, 1917-1930 / Anna L. Harvey -- Defying the party Whip: Mary Garrett Hay and the Republican Party, 1917-1920 / Elisabeth Israels Perry -- Evolution of a partisan: Emily Newell Blair and the Democratic party, 1920-1932 / Kathryn Anderson -- "Me for Ma": Miriam Ferguson and Texas politics in the 1920s and 1930s / Nancy Beck Young -- "There is No Sex in Citizenship": the career of Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn / Glenna Matthews -- Anna Wilmarth Ickes: a staunch woman Republican / Maureen A. Flanagan -- "She Is the Best Man on the Ward Committee": women in grassroots party organizations, 1930s-1950s / Paula Baker -- Soledad Chavez Chacon, Adelina Otero-Warren, and Concha Ortiz y Pino: three hispana politicians in New Mexico politics, 1920-1940 / Elizabeth Salas -- Legislated parity: mandating integration of women into California political parties, 1930s-1950s / Jaqueline R. Braitman