Political Women and American Democracy
Contributors: Beckwith, Karen; Baldez, Lisa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780511386428
Subjects: Women in politics
Description: Provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research on women in American politics.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: What We Saw at the Revolution; 2 Gender as a Category of Analysis in American Political Development; 3 Gender, Public Opinion, and Political Reasoning; 4 Gender in the Aggregate, Gender in the Individual, Gender and Political Action; 5 What Revolution?; 6 Women's Movements and Women in Movements; 7 Representation by Gender and Parties; 8 Women as Candidates in American Politics; 9 Women as Officeholders; 10 Theorizing Women's Representation in the United States.; title: 11 Political Women in Comparative Democracies12 Conclusion: Between Participation and Representation; References; Index.