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We will be heard women's struggles for political power in the United States
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In We Will Be Heard, noted political scientist Jo Freeman chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Fifteen case studies of women's struggles for political influen...
In We Will Be Heard, noted political scientist Jo Freeman chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Fifteen case studies of women's struggles for political influence provide the historical context for today's political events. Starting with a general overview, the three sections of the book look at different ways in which women have broken barriers, practiced politics, and promoted public policy.
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- Creator
- Jo Freeman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781461646884, 9780742556072, 146164688X, 9780742556089, 1299619487, 0742556077, 0742556085
- OCLC
- ocn847526971, ocn173502684
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker