The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice

Contents

Acknowledgments ix one Women’s Citizenship and American Democracy 1 two Suffrage and the Rise of Women’s Policy Advocacy 24 three The Second Wave Surges—And Then? 48 four From Public Interest to “Special Interests” 76 five Sameness, Difference, and Women’s Civic Place 105 six What Drove the Changes? The Not-So-Easy Answers 130 seven How Public Policy Shaped Women’s Civic Place 157 eiGht Women, Citizenship, and Public Policy in the 21st Century 186 APPendix A Congressional Hearings Data and Other Sources 203 APPendix b How the Foreign and Health Policy Testimony Was Selected 207 Notes 209 Bibliography 215 Index 229 Contents ...