Women In American Politics

Author : Doris Weatherford
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608710072

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Women in American Politics: History and Milestones by Doris Weatherford Pdf

Women in American Politics is a new reference detailing the milestones and trends in women's political participation in the United States. This two-volume work provides much needed perspective and background on the events and situations that have surrounded women's political activities. It offers insightful analysis on women's political achievements in the United States, including such topics as the campaign to secure nation-wide suffrage; pioneer women state officeholders; women first elected to U.S. Congress, governorships, mayoralties, and other offices; and women first appointed as Cabinet officials, judges, and ambassadors. It also includes profiles of the women who have run for vice president and president. Women in American Politics is organized in a framework both logical and useful to readers and researchers. Original material offers students, scholars, teachers, and other professionals a guide to understanding the complex struggle in women's progress toward achieving political parity with men in the United States. Each chapter is structured in three parts: - part one features graphic information-tables, lists, charts, or maps-detailing the historical record with data not compiled anywhere else, on women officeholders. - part two offers insightful narrative analysis describing how women achieved what they did, examines the complex and sometimes contradictory trends behind the facts of women's political milestones, and explores how social and economic contexts affected the progress of their accomplishments. - part three presents biographical entries describing in more personal terms women's struggle for political equality. Sidebars in each chapter illuminate the drama of political life and consider the evolving female electorate, exploring how women voters have impacted particular issues, specific elections, or other key turning points, and the tradition of appointing widows to open seats. The final chapter uniquely looks at women's political history and differences in achievement from a state and regional perspective. Entries on each state (as well as on District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) highlight milestones and provide insight into the unique aspects of each state.

Author : Lynne E. Ford
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438110325

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Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics by Lynne E. Ford Pdf

Presents a comprehensive reference to the role of women in American politics and government, including biographies, related topics, organizations, primary documents, and significant court cases.

Author : Christina Wolbrecht,Karen Beckwith,Lisa Baldez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521886236

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Political Women and American Democracy by Christina Wolbrecht,Karen Beckwith,Lisa Baldez Pdf

What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women's participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field. The collected essays examine women as citizens, voters, participants, movement activists, partisans, candidates, and legislators. The authors provide frameworks for understanding and organizing existing scholarship; focus on theoretical, methodological, and empirical debates; and map out productive directions for future research. As the only book to offer "state of the field" essays on women and gender in U.S. politics, Political Women and American Democracy will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students studying and conducting women and politics research.

Author : Martin Gruberg
Publisher : [Oshkosh, Wis.] : Academia Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000337570

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Women in American Politics by Martin Gruberg Pdf

Author : Angela L. Bos,Monica C. Schneider
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134831203

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The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics by Angela L. Bos,Monica C. Schneider Pdf

The Political Psychology of Women in U.S. Politics is a comprehensive resource for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in women and politics. Highly original and drawing from the best available research in psychology and political science, this book is designed to summarize and extend interdisciplinary research that addresses how and why men and women differ as citizens, as political candidates, and as officeholders. The chapters in this volume are focused on differences in the political behavior and perceptions of men and women, yet the chapters also speak to broader topics within American politics – including political socialization, opinion formation, candidate emergence, and voting behavior. Broadly, this volume addresses the causes and consequences of women’s underrepresentation in American government. This book is the ideal resource for students and researchers of all levels interested in understanding the unique political experiences of diverse women, and the importance of rectifying the problem of gender disparities in American politics.

Author : Julie Dolan,Melissa M. Deckman,Michele L. Swers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538154335

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Women and Politics by Julie Dolan,Melissa M. Deckman,Michele L. Swers Pdf

Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence examines the role of women in politics from the early women's movements to the female politicians in power today. The revised fourth edition includes: a new preface analyzing the 2020 elections, focusing on the historic victory of Kamala Harris and the gendered and racist critiques she endured on the campaign trail. recognition of the centennial of women's suffrage, with greater attention to Black and Indigenous women's often overlooked contributions to the fight for suffrage and expanded rights election results from the historic 2020 elections when more women filed congressional candidacies than ever before and women’s numbers in both Congress and state legislatures reached record highs. analysis of the gender gap in voting in 2020, focusing on both race and gender. updates reflecting President Biden's historic cabinet picks, including Deb Haaland as the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior and Janet Yellen as the first woman to lead the Treasury Department. coverage of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the nomination and confirmation of her replacement, Amy Coney Barrett.

Author : Susan J. Carroll,Richard L. Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107729247

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Gender and Elections by Susan J. Carroll,Richard L. Fox Pdf

The third edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, and multifaceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2012 elections. This timely yet enduring volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2012 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential elections, presidential and vice-presidential candidacies, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, congressional elections, the political involvement of Latinas, the participation of African American women, the support of political parties and women's organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in US electoral politics.

Author : Linda Witt,Glenna Matthews,Karen M. Paget
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439106105

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Running as a Woman by Linda Witt,Glenna Matthews,Karen M. Paget Pdf

Women have become a strong force in electoral politics, as candidates, office holders, and vocal constituents. In Running as a Woman, Linda Witt, Karen Paget, and Glenna Matthews explore the significant issues for women in public life: their marital status, the threat of sexual innuendo, what’s involved in becoming a credible candidate, and raising enough money to run. They also explain how voters are mobilized to vote for women, how the media cover them, how they get their campaign message out, what it’s like to lose, and what difference women make once elected. In addition, Running as a Woman includes a compelling history of women in politics that both records the political role women have played throughout the last two centuries and explains how and why women have continually been stifled in their attempts to enter political life. While the 1992 elections were hailed as a giant leap forward for women, the 1994 elections created a skepticism that real, permanent changes occurred. In Running as a Woman, the authors set the record straight with a chapter that analyzes the results of the 1994 elections and their relevance for women today.

Author : Sue Tolleson-Rinehart,Jyl J Josephson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315289755

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Gender and American Politics by Sue Tolleson-Rinehart,Jyl J Josephson Pdf

Studies of gender and American political life most often focus only on women. This book fills the gap by examining and comparing the roles and behavior of both men and women in political decision-making, public policy, and political institutions. Now updated and expanded, the book presents a full complement of empirical studies of real and imagined gender gaps. New to this edition are chapters on the media, legislative behavior, foreign policy, and the future of the gender dimension in American politics. The book is structured to parallel the typical course on the American political system.

Author : Susan J. Carroll
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522093

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Women and American Politics by Susan J. Carroll Pdf

Women and American Politics brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for the study of gender and American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and the emerging scholarship on the relationship between the media and women in politics, the participation of women of colour, and women's activism outside the electoral arena. This volume demonstrates both the wealth of knowledge about women and American politics by the current generation of scholars and the vast number and range of important research questions, which pose a challenge for the next generation.

Author : Ellen R. Malcolm,Craig Unger
Publisher : HMH
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780544443389

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When Women Win by Ellen R. Malcolm,Craig Unger Pdf

A behind-the-scenes look at the organization that transformed Congress—and became a force for female empowerment. In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen Malcolm launched EMILY’s List, a powerhouse political organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The rest is history: Since then, EMILY’s List has helped elect 23 women senators, 12 governors, and 116 Democratic women to the House. When Women Win delivers stories of some of the toughest political contests of the past three decades, including the historic victory of Barbara Mikulski as the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right and Elizabeth Warren’s dramatic Senate win. It is both a page-turning political drama and an important look at the effects of women’s engagement in politics.

Author : Danny Hayes,Jennifer L. Lawless
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107115583

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Women on the Run by Danny Hayes,Jennifer L. Lawless Pdf

The book argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, the candidate's sex plays a minimal role in the majority of US elections.

Author : Mona Lena Krook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190088491

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Violence against Women in Politics by Mona Lena Krook Pdf

Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased engagement has spurred attacks, intimidation, and harassment. This book provides the first comprehensive account of this phenomenon, exploring how women came to give these experiences a name: violence against women in politics. Tracing its global emergence as a concept, Mona Lena Krook draws on insights from multiple disciplines--political science, sociology, history, gender studies, economics, linguistics, psychology, and forensic science--to develop a more robust version of this concept to support ongoing activism and inform future scholarly work. Krook argues that violence against women in politics is not simply a gendered extension of existing definitions of political violence privileging physical aggressions against rivals. Rather, it is a distinct phenomenon involving a broad range of harms to attack and undermine women as political actors, taking physical, psychological, sexual, economic, and semiotic forms. Incorporating a wide range of country examples, she illustrates what this violence looks like in practice, catalogues emerging solutions around the world, and considers how to document this phenomenon more effectively. Highlighting its implications for democracy, human rights, and gender equality, the book asserts that addressing this issue requires ongoing dialogue and collaboration to ensure women's equal rights to participate--freely and safely--in political life around the globe.

Author : Ronnee Schreiber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199917020

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Righting Feminism by Ronnee Schreiber Pdf

When we think of women's activism in America, liberal figures such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan invariably come to mind. But women's interests are not synonymous with organizations like NOW anymore. As Ronnee Schreiber shows, the conservative ascendancy that began in the Reagan era has been accompanied by the emergence of a broad-based conservative women's movement. Righting Feminism shows that one of the key--albeit overlooked--developments in political activism since the 1980s has been the emergence of conservative women's organizations. It focuses on Concerned Women for America and the Independent Women's Forum to reveal how they are using feminist rhetoric for conservative ends: outlawing abortion, restricting pornography, and bolstering the traditional family. But ironically, these organizations face a paradox: to combat the legacy of feminism--particularly its appeal to the majority of American women--they must use the rhetoric of women's empowerment. Indeed, Schreiber amply illustrates how conservative activists are often the beneficiaries of the very feminist politics they oppose. Yet just as importantly, she demolishes two widely believed truisms: that conservatism holds no appeal to women and that modern conservatism is hostile to the very notion of women's activism. And, in this updated edition, Schreiber takes the story forward with an epilogue that considers the ways in which the politics of representation have changed for both conservative women and feminist activists in the wake of the political ascendency of figures including Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Based on numerous interviews with colorful conservative activists and extensive analyses of organizational documents, Righting Feminism offers a new way of understanding the unlikely intersection of women's activism and conservative politics in America today.

Author : Barbara Palmer,Dennis Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135891749

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Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling by Barbara Palmer,Dennis Simon Pdf

Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic calculations as men to decide when to run, the decision regarding where to run is something else. While redistricting has increasingly protected incumbents, it also has the unintended consequence of shaping the opportunities for female candidates. The political geography and socio-economic profile of districts that elect women differ substantially from districts that elect men. With data on over 10,000 elections and 30,000 candidates from 1916 to the present, Palmer and Simon explore how strategy and the power of incumbency affect women’s decisions to run for office. Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling is the most comprehensive analysis of women in congressional elections available. The Second Edition is fully updated to reflect the pivotal 2006 mid-term elections, including Nancy Pelosi’s rise to Speaker of the House, Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, and a record number of women serving as committee chairs. Additionally, the authors have created a website, found at politicsandwomen.com, to highlight key features of the book and provide updates throughout the election cycle.