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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455009203321

Autore

Carroll Susan J

Titolo

The Impact of Women in Public Office [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-06296-4

0-253-10906-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

320.0820973

320/.082/0973

Soggetti

Women in politics

Women - Political activity - United States

Gender Studies & Sexuality

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Representing Women: Women State Legislators as Agents of Policy-Related Change; 2. Words That Matter: Women 's Voice and Institutional Bias in Public Policy Formation; 3. Acting as Women: The Effects and Limitations of Gender in Local Governance; 4. Local Elected Women and Policy-Making: Movement Delegates or Feminist Trustees?; 5. Senator-at-Large for America 's WomenŽ:  Margaret Chase Smith and the Paradox of Gender Affinity; 6. Foreign Policy Decision Makers: The Impact of Gender

7. Do Women Leaders Make a Difference? Substance, Style, and Perceptions8. The Impact of Women in State Legislatures: Numerical and Organizational Strength; 9. Black Women in State Legislatures: The Relationship of Race and Gender to the Legislative Experience; 10. Feminist Judges: Challenging the Status Quo; 11. Acting for Women: Is What Legislators Say, What They Do?; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

""[A] well-integrated volume by...one of the best known political                scientists working on women and politics.... [It] includes contributions



by leading                scholars in the field, and provides a well-written and accessible overview of the                impact of women in office atevery level..."" -- Pippa Norris, John F.                Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University""This [book] will                be the standard-bearer not simply because it contains most of the early research in                the field but more importantly, because of