Paradox of Gender Equality How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

Name: Paradox of Gender Equality How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice
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ISBN: 9780472035618

ISBN-10: 0472035614

ISBN-13: 9780472035618

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Authors: Kristin A. Goss

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Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their democratic participation, provided a dual platform for the expansion of women's policy agendas. As measured by women's groups' appearances before the U.S. Congress, women's collective political engagement continued to grow between 1920 and 1960—when many conventional accounts claim it declined—and declined after 1980, when it might have been expected to grow. This waxing and waning was…

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List price: $35.00
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Women's Citizenship and American Democracy



Suffrage and the Rise of Women's Policy Advocacy



The Second Wave Surges-And Then?



From Public Interest to "Special Interests"



Sameness, Difference, and Women's Civic Place



What Drove the Changes? The Not-So-Easy Answers



How Public Policy Shaped Women's Civic Place



Women, Citizenship, and Public Policy in the 21st Century



Congressional Hearings Data and Other Sources



How the Foreign and Health Policy Testimony Was Selected


Notes


Bibliography


Index