'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
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.