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Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future » Read Now
by Sue Thomas, Clyde Wilcox. 241 pgs.

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Picking up where other works on women candidates or officeholders leave off, this study explores the history of these women in the USA. The study concludes with an analysis of the current situation of women in the political elite.
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Women in Office: Getting There and Staying There » Read Now
by Joanne Rajoppi, Ruth Mandel. 182 pgs.

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Women's approaches to problem-solving, leading, public policy positions, and relationships with people are different from men's. They have much to offer and present challenging opportunities to the political community of governance. This is a practical how-to book written for women who are involved...
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Women's approaches to problem-solving, leading, public policy positions, and relationships with people are different from men's. They have much to offer and present challenging opportunities to the political community of governance. This is a practical how-to book written for women who are involved in the process, either elected or appointed to office, who wish to stay in office, be re-elected or move onto higher office. A first in a new and important genre of literature.
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Women's Political Voice: How Women Are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics » Read Now
by Janet A. Flammang. 419 pgs.

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...8 pbk.: alk. paper 1. Women in politics -- United States -- History...publication of Martin Grubergs Women in American Politics , which challenged the discipline...that we...
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Women, Elections & Representation » Read Now
by R. Darcy, Susan Welch, Janet Clark. 282 pgs.

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...0-8032-6597-2 pbk. : alk. paper 1. Women in politics-- United States. 2. Women...Before Duverger, concern with women in politics was the vote and how women...unreasonable...
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How Women Legislate » Read Now
by Sue Thomas. 214 pgs.

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Climbing the Hill: Gender Conflict in Congress » Read Now
by Karen Foerstel, Herbert N. Foerstel. 202 pgs.

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Climbing the Hill explores the history and current status of women members and staff on Capitol Hill. It traces the difficult history of women in Congress, their slow and painful path to political power, and their hopes and fears of today. It presents a comprehensive analysis of women's success at...
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Climbing the Hill explores the history and current status of women members and staff on Capitol Hill. It traces the difficult history of women in Congress, their slow and painful path to political power, and their hopes and fears of today. It presents a comprehensive analysis of women's success at the polls and within the congressional hierarchy - legislatively, politically, and socially. Through in-depth research and extensive personal interviews, the authors reveal the deep-rooted sexual divisions within the U.S. Congress and the continuing struggle of women to break into the "old boy" network. The book's comprehensive coverage is unique and up-to-date and will be of interest to scholars, students, and interested layreaders.
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Before Equal Suffrage: Women in Partisan Politics from Colonial Times to 1920 » Read Now
by Robert J. Dinkin. 170 pgs.

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Dispelling the myth that women became involved in partisan politics only after they obtained the vote, this study uses contemporary newspaper sources to show that women were active in the party struggle long before 1920. Although their role was initially limited to attending rallies and hosting...
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Dispelling the myth that women became involved in partisan politics only after they obtained the vote, this study uses contemporary newspaper sources to show that women were active in the party struggle long before 1920. Although their role was initially limited to attending rallies and hosting picnics, they gradually began to use their pens and voices to support party tickets. By the late 19th century, women spoke at party functions and organized all-female groups to canvass neighborhoods and get out the vote. In the early suffrage states of the West, they voted in increasing numbers and even held a few offices. By the time the suffrage amendment was ratified, women were deeply involved in the political process.
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We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960 » Read Now
by Melanie Gustafson, Kristie Miller, Elisabeth I. Perry. 205 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ISBN 0-8263-1970-X pbk. 1. Women in politics -- United States -- History...circumstances. Any story of women in politics must take into account womens...conditions have...
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Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1917-1994 » Read Now
by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. 282 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that...
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There are more than fifty women in the United States Congress and nearly one-fourth of foreign service posts are held by women. Nevertheless, the United States has yet to entrust a senior foreign policy job, outside of the United Nations, to a woman. Beneath these statistics lurk central myths that Jeffreys-Jones cogently identifies and describes: the "Iron Lady" - too masculine; the "lover of peace" - too "pink"; the weak or the promiscuous. These are to name only a few. With an eye to the feminist foreign policy leaders of the future, the author traces the successes and failures of collectivities such as Women Strike for Peace and individuals who were influential in international politics since World War I, including Alice Paul, Jane Addams, Jeannette Rankin, Dorothy Detzer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Chase Smith, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Bella Abzug, Margaret Thatcher, and many others. These women often found ways to employ the myths to their own and to their country's benefit, and more recently have had the freedom to defy the stereotypes altogether.
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Emerging Influentials in State Legislatures: Women, Blacks, and Hispanics » Read Now
by Albert J. Nelson. 159 pgs.

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This study is the first to provide a detailed analysis of the extend to which representation of women, blacks, and Hispanics in state legislatures translates into actual political power. It also shows how factors such as party affiliation, opportunity and incentives, region, religion, employment...
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This study is the first to provide a detailed analysis of the extend to which representation of women, blacks, and Hispanics in state legislatures translates into actual political power. It also shows how factors such as party affiliation, opportunity and incentives, region, religion, employment, and cultural differences affect the political fortunes of each of these groups. Based on systematic comparisons of recent elections and legislative records, Nelson's work contributes significant new information on the operation of the democratic process.
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Women and Government: New Ways to Political Power » Read Now
by Mim Kelber. 229 pgs.

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Examines the political status of women in the world's governments and challenges the view that women in the United States and other countries are breaking through traditional barriers to achieve unprecedented political power.
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Women, Politics, and the United Nations » Read Now
by Anne Winslow. 222 pgs.

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How have women used global institutions and the networking possible through them to assure women's emergence on the world stage? How successful have women been at the United Nations and at international conferences over the years in their pressures for equality and for a full partnership with men?...
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How have women used global institutions and the networking possible through them to assure women's emergence on the world stage? How successful have women been at the United Nations and at international conferences over the years in their pressures for equality and for a full partnership with men? To what extent have women gained a foothold in the political arena internationally, and have they been able to exert their influence and to improve their situation? Expert participants and scholars give varying perspectives and insights about the history of women's worldwide efforts through governmental and nongovernmental organizations. They trace the role of the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. They analyze the politics of the three world women's conferences in the 1970s and the 1980s, the evolution of institutions set up as catalysts to resolve key issues in developing countries, and the changing conditions for women in the UN Secretariat and specialized agencies. These unusual appraisals and a lengthy bibliography are for interdisciplinary audiences of women and men around the world--essential background to understanding the 1995 UN conference in Beijing.
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Russian Women in Politics and Society » Read Now
by Wilma Rule, Norma C. Noonan. 190 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

An examination of women's roles in politics and society in the contemporary Russian Federation as it creates a new market economy and democratic course born of a millennium of history and nearly 75 years of authoritarian communist rule.
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On Top of the World: Women's Political Leadership in Scandinavia and Beyond » Read Now
by Bruce O. Solheim. 136 pgs.

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An examination of the political and social characteristics particular to Scandinavia which have made women's rise to power more rapid than in other regions of the world, this study also explores how the resulting election of women has provided valuable evidence of the impact of women leaders and...
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An examination of the political and social characteristics particular to Scandinavia which have made women's rise to power more rapid than in other regions of the world, this study also explores how the resulting election of women has provided valuable evidence of the impact of women leaders and their leadership style. Solheim begins with a critical survey of feminist scholarship regarding the equality-difference debate and the application of such research on the position of women in international politics. He concludes, in this respect, that leadership style may have less to do with gender than one might initially suspect. Archival research and interviews with women in leadership roles provide the reader with a closer look at the Scandinavian system, a view that will challenge gender stereotypes around the world.
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Women in Electoral Politics: Lessons from Norway » Read Now
by Jill M. Bystydzienski. 129 pgs.

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Women play a more visible and prominent role in politics and government in contemporary Norway than anywhere else in the world. They hold close to 50 percent of the ruling cabinet positions; are leaders of the three largest parties; constitute close to 40 percent of those who fill public corporate...
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Women play a more visible and prominent role in politics and government in contemporary Norway than anywhere else in the world. They hold close to 50 percent of the ruling cabinet positions; are leaders of the three largest parties; constitute close to 40 percent of those who fill public corporate boards, councils, and committees; hold 40 percent of parliamentary and almost 30 percent of local council seats. Upon closer examination, the Norwegian case reveals patterns of gender inequality similar to those found in the United States and other Western countries. The book focuses on what it would mean for women to attain full political equality with men in Norway and in general.
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From Emancipation to Liberation: The Changing Role of Women in Turkey's Public Realm, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Yesim Arat. 14 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...emancipated women," and not on politics in formal political...voices heard in the realm of orthodox politics. Women have yet to make...activism in Turkey in several...