We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States /
Freeman, Jo.
We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States / Jo Freeman. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008. - xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.
9780742556072 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742556077 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742556089 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0742556085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007038762
Women--Politics and government.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Feminism--United States.
Political participation--History.--United States
Women in politics--History.--United States
United States--Politics and government.
HQ1236.5.U6 / F746 2008
324.082/0973
We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States / Jo Freeman. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008. - xi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.
9780742556072 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742556077 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780742556089 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0742556085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2007038762
Women--Politics and government.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Feminism--United States.
Political participation--History.--United States
Women in politics--History.--United States
United States--Politics and government.
HQ1236.5.U6 / F746 2008
324.082/0973