Gender, Sexuality, and Love between Women in California’s Suffrage Campaign

Wendy Rouse is an associate professor of history at San Jose State University whose scholarly research focuses on the history of women and children in the United States during the Progressive Era. Her most recent book, Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self Defense Movement (2017), examines the political and physical empowerment of women through the practice of boxing and jiu-jitsu in the early twentieth century. She is presently working on a manuscript project called “Queering the History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement.” Professor Rouse thanks Paula Lichtenberg and David Duffield for their research assistance on aspects of this project.She can be contacted at Wendy.Rouse@sjsu.edu or on Twitter @WendyLRouse.