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Autore |
Freeman Jo |
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Titolo |
We will be heard [[electronic resource] ] : women's struggles for political power in the United States / / Jo Freeman |
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Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-7425-5607-7 |
1-4616-4688-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Political activity - United States - History |
Power (Social sciences) - United States - History |
Feminism - United States |
Political participation - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
United States Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In We Will Be Heard, noted political scientist Jo Freeman chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Fifteen case studies of women's struggles for political influence provide the |
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