Century of Votes for Women - American Elections Since Suffrage

Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

List of contents

1. Women at the polls; 2. Women without the vote; 3. Explaining women voters; 4. Enter the women voters; 5. Feminine mystique and the American voter; 6. Feminism resurgent; 7. The discovery of the gender gap; 8. Women voters in the new millennium; 9. A century of votes for women.

About the author

Christina Wolbrecht is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She is author of the award-winning books Counting Women's Ballots (with J. Kevin Corder, Cambridge, 2016) and The Politics of Women's Rights (2000).J. Kevin Corder is Professor of Political Science at Western Michigan University. His books include Counting Women's Ballots (with Christina Wolbrecht, Cambridge, 2016), which received the 2017 Victoria Schuck Award, and The Fed and the Credit Crisis (2012).

Summary

A Century of Votes for Women examines how women voted in the first 100 years of suffrage. Challenging the idea of 'the woman voter', the authors trace how the press, politicians, and scholars have described women voters and how different groups of women actually voted across a momentous century.

Product details

• Authors: J Kevin Corder, J. Kevin Corder, J. Kevin (Western Michigan University) Corder, Corder J. Kevin, Christina Wolbrecht, Christina (University of Notre Dame Wolbrecht, Wolbrecht Christina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781316638071
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63807-1
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political structure & processes, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender & the law, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Feminism and feminist theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Political structure and processes, Civics and citizenship, Law and society, gender issues