An Army of Women

Goldberg succeeds in demonstrating the tremendous importance of the story of women's political activism and suffrage efforts in Kansas and explores this material in a way that reveals its considerable complexity... He establishes that the story of Kansas is a crucial element in the history of Gilded Age women's political activism.

The ablest account to date of Kansas's most famous female Populists... Goldberg has written an important book. More than anyone else to date, he has advanced understanding of the role that gender played in Gilded Age politics and in Populism.

Goldberg breaks new ground discussing how shifting definitions of womanhood and manhood divided the leading families of Kansas towns from the farm families who surrounded them... An engaging narrative about major conflicts in Kansas—and national—history.

Well-written and fascinating... successful demonstration of the power of gender analysis to bring fresh and creative insights to the study of political culture.

Goldberg has taken a staple topic of U.S. history and utterly renewed it in a stimulating, forcefully written narrative, the first attempt really to understand the role of women as political agents in the Populist movement at the local level. Groundbreaking not only in making attention to women's participation central to politics, but also in integrating the study of the environment with politics and culture, An Army of Women will serve as a model of the new multifaceted political history.