Gender Consciousness and Politics is a comprehensive study of American women's political behaviour and attitudes. Using political philosophy, political psychology, history, feminist theory and the anglo-american literary tradition, the author sets the context for an understanding of women's politicization as the result of gender consciousness - the recognition that one's status, roles and attitudes are significantly shaped by the fact of one's sex and the way one's culture regards gender. Broader than a single feminist ideology, gender consciousness includes not only feminist attitudes, but...