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Acknowledgments | |
Feminism, Analysis, and the Search for Meaning | p. 1 |
Variations on the theme of gender differences | p. 5 |
Political thought | p. 5 |
Empirical analysis | p. 11 |
The recurring strain of gender consciousness | p. 14 |
Gender consciousness and feminism | p. 14 |
Bridging behavior and theory | p. 16 |
Tracing an Elusive Concept | p. 19 |
Gender role socialization and political socialization: Real or implied convergence? | p. 21 |
Traditional assumptions and ironclad illusions | p. 21 |
Reconsidering gender and political socialization | p. 23 |
Gender consciousness | p. 27 |
Eleanor Roosevelt's paradox | p. 27 |
Consciousness as a political concept | p. 29 |
Defining gender consciousness | p. 32 |
Saying "We" | p. 34 |
Measuring Women's Identification With One Another | p. 35 |
Women's membership in the "group" of women | p. 36 |
Group identification and politics | p. 40 |
Are women a group? | p. 42 |
Does group membership mean group consciousness? | p. 45 |
Women's gender identification, 1972-1988 | p. 49 |
Women's group closeness | p. 51 |
Demographic influences? | p. 55 |
The influence of indicators of lifespace | p. 56 |
The adult socialization environment | p. 58 |
A Last Look | p. 63 |
The Intersection of Gender Identification and Gender Role Ideology | p. 67 |
Beliefs about gender roles | p. 71 |
Probing gender identification | p. 78 |
Women's closeness to one another and their beliefs about gender roles | p. 78 |
Gender identification, gender ideology, and attitudes about women | p. 83 |
Abortion, religion, morality and gender consciousness | p. 88 |
Identification, gender role beliefs, and day-to-day life | p. 95 |
Demographic influences | p. 95 |
How does one's position in the life cycle matter? | p. 98 |
The socialization environment | p. 100 |
Seeing the picture in more detail | p. 106 |
Gender Consciousness and Political Engagement | p. 111 |
Some historical meanings of privatization to women's political roles | p. 115 |
From the Renaissance to Mary Wollstonecraft | p. 116 |
The "angel in the house": Victorian passionlessness and women's purity | p. 121 |
Seeing the patterns | p. 125 |
Gender consciousness, internal political resources, and political behavior | p. 127 |
Particular aspects of political engagement | p. 132 |
The shape of one's world and the articulation of one's political self | p. 139 |
Political Woman | p. 143 |
Gender Consciousness and Policy Preferences | p. 145 |
Ideology: Sophistication, naivete, or indifference? | p. 149 |
Consciousness and Policy | p. 153 |
The choice of policy preferences for analysis | p. 154 |
Differences in policy preferences | p. 158 |
Liberal ideology or consciousness? | p. 163 |
Consciousness: The connection of behavior to attitudes | p. 166 |
Some Concluding Thoughts | p. 169 |
Appendix | p. 173 |
Bibliography | p. 177 |
Author Index | p. 187 |
Subject Index | p. 191 |
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