Women and elective office
Subtitle: past, present, and future
By: edited by Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox.
Contributors: Thomas, Sue, 1957-; Wilcox, Clyde, 1953-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780195180824; 9780195180831
Subjects: Women in public life -- United States; Women in politics -- United States; Women political candidates -- United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction : women and difference / Sue Thomas; title: Campaign financing / Barbara Burrell; title: How the public views women candidates / Kathleen Dolan; title: Women candidates for Congress / Heather Ondercin and Susan Welch; title: Different portraits, different leaders? : gender differences in U.S. senators' presentation of self / Kim L. Fridkin and Gina Serignese Woodall; title: Do women and men state legislators differ? / Michael J. Epstein, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell; title: Women and Congress : do they act as advocates for women's issues? / Michele L. Swers and Carin Larson; title: Women and Congress : behind the scenes / Debra Dodson; title: Indelible effects : the impact of women of color in the U.S. Congress / Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Katherine Tate, and Janelle Wong; title: Change and continuity in the geography of women state legislators / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox; title: Women leading legislatures : getting there and getting things done / Cindy Simon Rosenthal; title: In a different voice : women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene; title: Institutional gendering : theoretical insights into the environment of women officeholders / Georgia Duerst-Lahti; title: Women as political leaders worldwide : cultural barriers and opportunites / Pippa Norris & Ronald Inglehart; title: Prospects for cracking the political glass ceiling : the future of women officeholders in the twenty-first century / Jean Schroedel & Marcia Godwin.