TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,Jo
TI  - We will be heard: women's struggles for political power in the United States 
SN  - 9780742556072 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ1236.5.U6 F746 2008
U1  - 324.082/0973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Lanham, Md.
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - History
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Women in politics
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007038762.html
ER  -