Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage Through the New Deal

ISBN-13: 9781316505878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str.

J. Kevin Corder; Christina Wolbrecht

Opis

Counting Women's Ballots provides a comprehensive account of how women voted in presidential elections immediately after suffrage.

Recenzje

'This important and compelling book should be of interest to scholars of gender and politics, voting behavior, and party realignment during the Progressive Era and New Deal. It sheds light on a crucial period of voting in America.' Journal of Politics

Spis treści

1. Counting women's ballots; 2. Before suffrage; 3. What we already know; 4. Estimating women's turnout and vote choice; 5. Female voters and the republican landslide of 1920; 6. Female voters, republican majorities, and the progressive surge in 1924; 7. Female voters and the 'rum and religion' election of 1928; 8. Female voters and the emerging democratic majority, 1932–6; 9. Female voters from suffrage through the new deal and beyond.