Suffrage At 100: Women In American Politics Since 1920 (PDF)

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Synopsis
In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate-a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020-a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971-remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. This is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women's access to, and influence on, political power remains frustratingly uneven, particularly for women of color and queer women. Examining how women have acted collectively and individually, both within and outside of electoral and governmental channels, the book moves from the front lines of community organizing to the highest glass ceiling. Essays touch on labor and civil rights education environmentalism enfranchisement and voter suppression conservatism vs. liberalism indigeneity and transnationalism LGBTQ and personal politics Pan-Asian, Chicana, and black feminisms commemoration and public history and much more. Contributors: Melissa Estes Blair, Eileen Boris, Marisela R. Chávez, Claire Delahaye, Nicole Eaton, Liette Gidlow, Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq), Emily Suzanne Johnson, Dean J. Kotlowski, Monica L. Mercado, Johanna Neuman, Kathleen Banks Nutter, Katherine Parkin, Ellen G. Rafshoon, Bianca Rowlett, Sarah B. Rowley, Ana Stevenson, Barbara Winslow, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Nancy Beck Young
Copyright:
2020

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
472 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781421438696
Related ISBNs:
9781421438689
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Copyrighted By:
John Hopkins University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction
Grade Levels:
College Freshman
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Bookshare Staff
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