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Selling the City: Gender, Class, and the California Growth Machine, 1880–1940. By Lee M. A. Simpson. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi, 215 pp. $49.50, ISBN 08047-4875-6.)

In this examination of second- and third-tier cities in California, Lee M. A. Simpson challenges the exclusion of women's activities from the analysis of city growth. Urban historians, Simpson contends, ignore women's contributions to the processes of urbanization, while women's historians ignore the urban context. In both contentions, Simpson is essentially correct, and this study contributes to bringing women back into their cities. . . .

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