| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875–1930. By Lynn Musselwhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xii + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

The biography of Kate Barnard, the first woman in the U. S. to hold a state office as commissioner of Charities and Corrections in Oklahoma, has been a collaborative project spanning sixteen years for Lynn Musselwhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford, both professors of history at Cameron University in Oklahoma. With progressive reform throughout the nation as the backdrop, the authors chart Barnard's political life in a state that did not adopt women's suffrage until 1918. Their study demonstrates the tactics Barnard used to maintain her political post from 1907 to 1915. In short, they argue that Barnard privileged her own political desires and social issues, such as child advocacy and prison reform, over women's issues, namely suffrage.

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