What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women s 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...
What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women s parti...
What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women s 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...
What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women s parti...
Karen Beckwith examines the patterns of mass-level political participation among American women from 1952 to 1976. Four distinct forms of political participation are focused upon: voting, electoral activism, conventional nonelectoral participation, and political protest. She then tests three explanations considered unique to the political participation of women in these areas: the nature of women's work; women's experience in political generations; and adherence to or support of feminism. Surprisingly, Beckwith's study indicates that such traditional explanations reveal more about men than...
Karen Beckwith examines the patterns of mass-level political participation among American women from 1952 to 1976. Four distinct forms of political...
