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Women, Power, and Politics: The Fight for Gender Equality in the United States offers a timely and engaging analysis of classic and contemporary gender-related issues, focusing on the role of women as active participants in government and the public policies that affect women in their daily lives.
List of contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Women, Power, and Politics
- 2 The Women's Rights Movement in the United States
- 3 The Many Faces of Feminism
- 4 Gender Representations in Popular Culture
- 5 Women as Political Participants
- 6 Women as Political Candidates
- 7 Women as Legislators
- 8 Women as Executive Leaders
- 9 Women in the Judiciary
- 10 Public Policy: Economic Rights
- 11 Public Policy: Reproductive Rights
- 12 Public Policy: Gendered Violence
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Lori Cox Han is Professor of Political Science at Chapman University.
Caroline Heldman is Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College.
Summary
Women, Power, and Politics: The Fight for Gender Equality in the United States offers a timely and engaging analysis of classic and contemporary gender-related issues, focusing on the role of women as active participants in government and the public policies that affect women in their daily lives.
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This text's scholarly rigor, its comprehensive coverage of current literature, and its incorporation of contemporary examples, makes it the best women and politics book out there. This book takes a broad approach, so students can see the forest
