Political Women and American Democracy

by Christina Wolbrecht , Karen Beckwith , Lisa Baldez

• ISBN13: 9780521713849
• ISBN10: 0521713846
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women's participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field. The collected essays examine women as citizens, voters, participants, movement activists, partisans, candidates, and legislators. The authors provide frameworks for understanding and organizing existing scholarship; focus on theoretical, methodological, and empirical debates; and map out productive directions for future research. As the only book to offer 'œstate of the field' essays on women and gender in U.S. politics, Political Women and American Democracy will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students studying and conducting women and politics research.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: What We Saw at the Revolution: Women in American Politics and Political Science	p. 1
Gender as a Category of Analysis in American Political Development	p. 12
Gender, Public Opinion, and Political Reasoning	p. 31
Gender in the Aggregate, Gender in the Individual, Gender and Political Action	p. 50
What Revolution? Incorporating Intersectionality in Women and Politics	p. 64
Women's Movements and Women in Movements: Influencing American Democracy from the "Outside"?	p. 79
Representation by Gender and Parties	p. 96
Women as Candidates in American Politics: The Continuing Impact of Sex and Gender	p. 110
Women as Officeholders: Linking Descriptive and Substantive Representation	p. 128
Theorizing Women's Representation in the United States	p. 148
Political Women in Comparative Democracies: A Primer for Americanists	p. 167
Conclusion: Between Participation and Representation: Political Women and Democracy in the United States	p. 181
References	p. 199
Index	p. 251
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