Oregon's Others

"Much of what Jensen uncovers in Oregon’s Others is disturbingly relevant at a time in which politicians routinely vilify immigrants and bodily autonomy is under attack. Jensen’s primary research is wide-ranging and impressive, and she draws on numerous contemporary scholars to reframe archival materials in provocative ways. While this book will be of particular interest to scholars of Oregon history, it also exposes the darker side of the Progressive Era in general."

"How safe are our civil rights today? What can we learn from those whose liberties have been challenged? Kim Jensen's scrutiny of Oregon's past exclusionary policies brings caution for our own roles as citizens. Her deep inquiry into those who challenged policies discriminating against gender, race, ethnicity, and ability highlights our need to be vigilant against continual challenges of 'we' versus 'they.'"

"Kimberly Jensen's exceptional contribution to American gender history deconstructs the chilling connections between the success of woman suffrage in Oregon in 1912 and the shocking attacks on civil rights, particularly of women, in the state during World War I and the white-supremacist 1920s. The targets were the most vulnerable—sex workers, foreign nationals, wards of the state, gender nonconformists, and other 'undesirables.' Yet through these people's tragic stories, including their resistance, Jensen offers hope for the nation."

"Makes a significant contribution to scholarship on gendered citizenship and relationships of liberty and policing in the early twentieth century through its thorough examination of these issues from various angles in a state that was at the forefront of surveillance in that era."