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- Women, Politics and Change
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- 1990
- Published by: Russell Sage Foundation
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Women, Politics, and Change, a compendium of twenty-three original essays by social historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists, examines the political history of American women over the past one hundred years. Taking a broad view of politics, the contributors address voluntarism and collective action, women's entry into party politics through suffrage and temperance groups, the role of nonpartisan organizations and pressure politics, and the politicization of gender. Each chapter provides a telling example of how American women have behaved politically throughout the twentieth century, both in the two great waves of feminist activism and in less highly mobilized periods. "The essays are unusually well integrated, not only through the introductory material but through a similarity of form and extensive cross-references among them....in raising central questions about the forms, bases, and issues of women's politics, as well as change and continuity over time, Tilly, Gurin, and the individual scholars included in this collection have provided us with a survey of the latest research and an agenda for the future." —Contemporary Sociology "This book is a necessary addition to the scholar's bookshelf, and the student's curriculum." —Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, professor of sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center
Table of Contents
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- Title page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. v-vi
- Contributors
- pp. vii-xii
- Part I. Introduction
- Part II. Protopolitics and Fluid Boundaries
- Part III. Electoral Politics
- Chapter 10. Women in Party Politics
- pp. 221-248
- Part IV. Continuities and Discontinuities in Women's Political Voluntarism
- Part V. The Politicization of Gender
- Chapter 20. Women and Divorce Reform
- pp. 482-502
- Part VI. Afterword
- Chapter 23. Women in American Politics
- pp. 555-572
- Bibliography
- pp. 573-618
- Name Index
- pp. 619-638
- Subject Index
- pp. 639-670
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610445344
Related ISBN(s)
9780871548849, 9780871548856
MARC Record
OCLC
906809227
Pages
688
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1990