Christina Wolbrecht, Karen Beckwith, Lisa Baldez

Political Women and American Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Political Women and American Democracy is an invaluable resource for scholars and students studying and conducting women and politics research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780521713849
• ISBN-10: 0521713846
• Artikelnr.: 23541539

Autorenporträt

Christina Wolbrecht is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Program of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. Her book, The Politics of Women's Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change (2000), was recipient of the 2001 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the American Political Science Association (Political Organizations and Parties Section). She has published articles in many journals, including the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: what we saw at the Revolution: women in American politics
and political science Christina Wolbrecht; 2. Gender as a category of
political analysis in American political development Gretchen Ritter; 3.
Gender, public opinion, and political reasoning Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese,
and Mary-Kate Lizotte; 4. Gender in the aggregate, gender in the
individual, gender and political action Nancy Burns; 5. What revolution?
Incorporating intersectionality in women and politics Jane Junn and Nadia
Brown; 6. Women's movements and women in movements: influencing American
democracy from the 'outside'? Lee Ann Banaszak; 7. Representation by gender
and parties Kira Sanbonmatsu; 8. Women as candidates in American politics:
the continuing impact of sex and gender Kathleen Dolan; 9. Women as office
holders: linking descriptive and substantive representation Beth Reingold;
10. Theorizing women's representation in the United States Suzanne Dovi;
11. Political women in comparative democracies: a primer for Americanists
Lisa Baldez; Conclusion: between participation and representation:
political women and democracy in the United States Karen Beckwith.