Women, Politics and Change

Author: Louise A. Tilly
Secondary Author: Patricia Gurin
ISBN: 9780871548856

Women, Politics, and Change, a compendium of twenty-three original essays by social historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists, examines the political history of American women over the past one hundred years. Taking a broad view of politics, the contributors address voluntarism and collective action, women's entry into party politics through suffrage and temperance groups, the role of nonpartisan organizations and pressure politics, and the politicization of gender. Each chapter provides a telling example of how American women have behaved politically throughout the twentieth century, both in the two great waves of feminist activism and in less highly mobilized periods. "The essays are unusually well integrated, not only through the introductory material but through a similarity of form and extensive cross-references among them....in raising central questions about the forms, bases, and issues of women's politics, as well as change and continui

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Publish Date: 1990

Subjects: Social Science / General, Social Science / Gender Studies, Political Science / Women in Politics

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Politics/Human Rights)