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Political Women and American Democracy

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ISBN-10: 0521713846

ISBN-13: 9780521713849

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, Lisa Baldez

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What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in womens participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field. The collected essays examine women as citizens, voters, participants, movement activists, partisans, candidates, and legislators. The authors provide frameworks for understanding and organizing existing scholarship; focus on theoretical, methodological, and empirical…    
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Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Lisa Baldez is Associate Professor in the Government and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Departments at Dartmouth College. She is founding editor, with Karen Beckwith, of Politics & Gender, the journal of the Women and Political Research Section of the American Political Science Association. She is author of Why Women Protest: Women's Movements in Chile (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and numerous journal articles.

Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: What We Saw at the Revolution: Women in American Politics and Political Science
Gender as a Category of Analysis in American Political Development
Gender, Public Opinion, and Political Reasoning
Gender in the Aggregate, Gender in the Individual, Gender and Political Action
What Revolution? Incorporating Intersectionality in Women and Politics
Women's Movements and Women in Movements: Influencing American Democracy from the "Outside"?
Representation by Gender and Parties
Women as Candidates in American Politics: The Continuing Impact of Sex and Gender
Women as Officeholders: Linking Descriptive and Substantive Representation
Theorizing Women's Representation in the United States
Political Women in Comparative Democracies: A Primer for Americanists
Conclusion: Between Participation and Representation: Political Women and Democracy in the United States
References
Index