Profile: Pearl Bernstein: a woman in New York politics -- Precedents -- Part I: At the margins. Negotiating partisanship -- Sustaining feminist progressivism -- Part II: Moving toward the center. Scandal in the courts -- Fallout -- The women of the administration -- The election of 1937 and beyond -- Part III: Looking forward -- Legacy -- Appendix: "Fifty women and one man: a play in three scenes and one axe."
Summary
New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed almost a hundred women to administrative and judicial posts. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. After the Vote tells the story of these women and their work to modernize the nation's largest city and advance American women's political careers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 28, 2020)
