Bøker av Kathleen A. Cairns

At Home in the World examines the extraordinary and largely unheralded role women played in forging the modern environmental movement, specifically in California.

Looks at the lives and careers of women who worked in the male-dominated profession of journalism. The author examines the roles women played in early-twentieth-century newspaper journalism and the influence they had on future generations of newspaperwomen through the examples of Agness Underwood, Charlotta Bass, and Ruth Finney.

Cairns examines how Graham's case became a touchstone in the on-going debate over capital punishment

Tells the tale of Nellie May Madison, the first woman on Death Row in California. This story offers a glimpse into law and disorder in 1930s Los Angeles and presents a remarkable character whose plight focuses on the status of women, the workings of the media and the judiciary system, and the stratification of society in her time.