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The paradox of gender equality : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice / Kristin A. Goss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goss, Kristin A., 1965- author.
- Series:
- CAWP series in gender and American politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--United States.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- United States.
- Women's rights--United States.
- Women's rights.
- Women--Suffrage--United States.
- Women--Suffrage.
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 240 pages).
- Edition:
- New Edition, with a New Preface.
- Other Title:
- How American women's groups gained and lost their public voice
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Kristin A. Goss examines how women s civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. As measured by women s groups appearances before the U.S. Congress, women s collective political engagement continued to grow between 1920 and 1960 when many conventional accounts claim it declined and declined after 1980, when it might have been expected to grow. Goss asks what women have gained, and perhaps lost, through expanded incorporation, as well as whether single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century America.
- Contents:
- Women's citizenship and American democracy
- Suffrage and the rise of women's policy advocacy
- The second wave surges
- and then?
- From public interest to "special interests"
- Sameness, difference, and women's civic place
- What drove the changes? the not-so-easy answers
- How public policy shaped women's civic place
- Women, citizenship, and public policy in the 21st century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472127009
- 0472127004
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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