The impact of women in public office / edited by Susan J. Carroll.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carroll, Susan J., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--United States.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""[A] well-integrated volume by...one of the best known political scientists working on women and politics.... [It] includes contributions by leading scholars in the field, and provides a well-written and accessible overview of the impact of women in office atevery level..."" -- Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University""This [book] will be the standard-bearer not simply because it contains most of the early research in the field but more importantly, because of

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Representing Women: Women State Legislators as Agents of Policy-Related Change; 2. Words That Matter: Women 's Voice and Institutional Bias in Public Policy Formation; 3. Acting as Women: The Effects and Limitations of Gender in Local Governance; 4. Local Elected Women and Policy-Making: Movement Delegates or Feminist Trustees?; 5. Senator-at-Large for America 's WomenŽ: Margaret Chase Smith and the Paradox of Gender Affinity; 6. Foreign Policy Decision Makers: The Impact of Gender

7. Do Women Leaders Make a Difference? Substance, Style, and Perceptions8. The Impact of Women in State Legislatures: Numerical and Organizational Strength; 9. Black Women in State Legislatures: The Relationship of Race and Gender to the Legislative Experience; 10. Feminist Judges: Challenging the Status Quo; 11. Acting for Women: Is What Legislators Say, What They Do?; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06296-4

0-253-10906-X

OCLC:

70720591