Title: A Room at a Time
Description: "Jo Freeman brings us the very rich story of how American women entered into political life and party politics - well before suffrage and, in many cases, completely separate from it.".

"Freeman shows how women carefully and methodically learned about the issues, the candidates, and the institutions, put themselves to work, and made themselves indispensable not only to the men running for office but to the political system overall.

She describes how women slipped inside the political house in the half century between the two great waves of women's political activism - a room at a time - and thus laid the foundation for the accelerated progress of the 1960s and 1970s, all the while building toward the monumental elections of 2000."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Political parties, Politics and government, Women in politics, Women, Political activity, Women, political activity, Political parties, united states, United states, politics and government, 19th century, United states, politics and government, 20th century, Women, united states, history, Women, history, Women, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century