LEADER 04205nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910453288103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612569340 010 $a1-282-56934-1 010 $a1-4008-3124-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400831241 035 $a(CKB)2550000001251152 035 $a(EBL)537721 035 $a(OCoLC)638860624 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425684 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11287895 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425684 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10372533 035 $a(PQKB)11377365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC537721 035 $a(OCoLC)642205757 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36424 035 $a(DE-B1597)446269 035 $a(OCoLC)1004874641 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400831241 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL537721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386063 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL256934 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001251152 100 $a19990923d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of women's rights$b[electronic resource] $eparties, positions, and change /$fChristina Wolbrecht 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-04857-6 311 $a0-691-04856-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-257) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tTables --$tAcronyms --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter One: Women's Rights and the American Parties --$tChapter Two: Of Presidents and Platforms --$tChapter Three: Women's Rights in the House and Senate --$tChapter Four: Explaining Party Issue Realignment --$tChapter Five: Equilibrium Disruption and Issue Redefinition --$tChapter Six: Shifting Coalitions and Changing Elites --$tChapter Seven: The Politics of Women's Rights --$tAppendix --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aHere 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 1950's and early 1960's, Republicans were slightly more favorable than Democrats, but by the early 1980's, 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 1960's--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. 606 $aWomen's rights$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical parties$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989-1993 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen's rights 615 0$aPolitical parties 676 $a305.42/0973 700 $aWolbrecht$b Christina$0931898 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453288103321 996 $aThe politics of women's rights$92447727 997 $aUNINA