We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States
2008
324.082 F855 2008
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Title
We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States
Published
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
Description
xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
324.082 F855 2008
System Control No.
(OCoLC)173502684
Note
Chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Fifteen case studies of women's struggles for political influence provide the historical context for today's political events.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.
In connection with chap. 3. The rise of political woman in the election of 1912, see also Isabel Anderson's Scrapbook of the 1912 Campaign.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.
In connection with chap. 3. The rise of political woman in the election of 1912, see also Isabel Anderson's Scrapbook of the 1912 Campaign.
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