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Political Women and American Democracy

By: Christina Wolbrecht,Karen Beckwith,Lisa Baldez

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Political Women and American Democracy

By: Christina Wolbrecht,Karen Beckwith,Lisa Baldez

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 understanding and organizing existing scholarship; focus on theoretical, methodological, and empirical debates; and map out productive directions for future research. As the only book to offer "state of the field" essays on women and gender in U.S. politics, Political Women and American Democracy will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students studying and conducting women and politics research.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521713846

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9780521713849

The Politics of Women's Rights

Parties, Positions, and Change

By: Christina Wolbrecht

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The Politics of Women's Rights

Parties, Positions, and Change

By: Christina Wolbrecht

Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. She begins by showing the evolution of the positions of both parties on women's rights over the past five decades. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Republicans were slightly more favorable than Democrats, but by the early 1980s, the parties had polarized sharply, with Democrats supporting, and Republicans opposing, such policies as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights. Wolbrecht not only traces the development of this shift in the parties' relative positions--focusing on party platforms, the words and actions of presidents and presidential candidates, and the behavior of the parties' delegations in Congress--but also seeks to explain the realignment. The author considers the politically charged developments that have contributed to a redefinition and expansion of the women's rights agenda since the 1960s--including legal changes, the emergence of the modern women's movement, and changes in patterns of employment, fertility, and marriage. Wolbrecht explores how party leaders reacted to these developments and adopted positions in ways that would help expand their party's coalition. Combined with changes in those coalitions--particularly the rise of social conservatism within the GOP and the affiliation of social movement groups with the Democratic party--the result was the polarization characterizing the parties' stances on women's rights today.

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Princeton University Press

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1400831245

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9781400831241

Counting Women's Ballots

By: J. Kevin Corder,Christina Wolbrecht

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Counting Women's Ballots

By: J. Kevin Corder,Christina Wolbrecht

Counting Women's Ballots provides a comprehensive account of how women voted in presidential elections immediately after suffrage.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107140250

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9781107140257

A Century of Votes for Women

American Elections Since Suffrage

By: Christina Wolbrecht,J. Kevin Corder

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A Century of Votes for Women

American Elections Since Suffrage

By: Christina Wolbrecht,J. Kevin Corder

How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women's (and men's) voting behavior, and traces how women's turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as 'the woman voter'; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316947211

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The Politics of Women's Rights

Parties, Positions, and Change

By: Christina Wolbrecht

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Parties, Positions, and Change

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Counting Women's Ballots

By: J. Kevin Corder,Christina Wolbrecht

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By: J. Kevin Corder,Christina Wolbrecht

Counting Women's Ballots provides a comprehensive account of how women voted in presidential elections immediately after suffrage.

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Stunning Males and Powerful Females

Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance

By: Christina Sunardi

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Gender and Tradition in East Javanese Dance

By: Christina Sunardi

In east Javanese dance traditions like Beskalan and Ngremo, musicians and dancers negotiate gender through performances where males embody femininity and females embody masculinity. Christina Sunardi ventures into the regency of Malang in east Java to study and perform with dancers. Through formal interviews and casual conversation, Sunardi learns about their lives and art. Her work shows how performers continually transform dance traditions to negotiate, and renegotiate, the boundaries of gender and sex--sometimes reinforcing lines of demarcation, sometimes transgressing them, and sometimes doing both simultaneously. But Sunardi's investigation moves beyond performance. It expands notions of the spiritual power associated with female bodies and feminine behavior, and the ways women, men, and waria (males who dress and live as female) access the magnetic power of femaleness. A journey into understudied regions and ideas, Stunning Males and Powerful Females reveals how performances seemingly fixed by tradition are instead dynamic environments for cultural negotiation and change surrounding questions of sex and gender.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096916

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9780252096914

The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics

By: Christina E. Bejarano

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The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics

By: Christina E. Bejarano

Many questions remain unanswered about the observable differences in voting behavior, partisanship, and cultural attitudes among men and women. Bejarano offers an authoritative, critical reflection on how this political gender gap is displayed in the racial/ethnic-minority groups in the U.S.

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Routledge

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1135010617

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Supreme Bias

Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

By: Paul M. Collins Jr,Lori Ringhand,Christina Boyd

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Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

By: Paul M. Collins Jr,Lori Ringhand,Christina Boyd

In Supreme Bias, Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of race and gender at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drawing on their deep knowledge of the confirmation hearings, as well as rich new qualitative and quantitative evidence, the authors highlight how the women and people of color who have sat before the Committee have faced a significantly different confirmation process than their white male colleagues. Despite being among the most qualified and well-credentialed lawyers of their respective generations, female nominees and nominees of color face more skepticism of their professional competence, are subjected to stereotype-based questioning, are more frequently interrupted, and are described in less-positive terms by senators. In addition to revealing the disturbing extent to which race and gender bias exist even at the highest echelon of U.S. legal power, this book also provides concrete suggestions for how that bias can be reduced in the future.

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Stanford University Press

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1503636895

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9781503636897

A Century of Votes for Women

American Elections Since Suffrage

By: Christina Wolbrecht,J. Kevin Corder

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A Century of Votes for Women

American Elections Since Suffrage

By: Christina Wolbrecht,J. Kevin Corder

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Book's by Christina Wolbrecht

Political Women and American Democracy

Political Women and American Democracy

The Politics of Women's Rights

The Politics of Women's Rights

Counting Women's Ballots

Counting Women's Ballots

A Century of Votes for Women

A Century of Votes for Women

The Politics of Women's Rights

The Politics of Women's Rights

Counting Women's Ballots

Counting Women's Ballots

Stunning Males and Powerful Females

Stunning Males and Powerful Females

The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics

The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics

Supreme Bias

Supreme Bias

A Century of Votes for Women

A Century of Votes for Women

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