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Author Ford, Lynne E., author.

Title Women and politics : the pursuit of equality / Lynne E. Ford.

Publisher Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2017]
©2017

ISBN 9780813350813
0813350816



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Edition Fourth edition.
Description xx, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Two paths to equality -- All rights are not equal: suffrage versus the Equal Rights Amendment -- Suffrage accomplished: women as political participants -- Women seeking office: the next phase of political integration -- Women as political actors: representation and advocacy -- Education and the pursuit of equality -- Women and work: in pursuit of economic equality -- Politics of family and fertility: the last battleground in the pursuit of equality? -- Setting the agenda and taking action: new challenges in the pursuit of equality.
Summary Women and Politics is a comprehensive examination of women's use of politics in pursuit of gender equality. How can demands for gender equality be reconciled with sex differences? Resolving this paradoxical question has proceeded along two paths: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes gender neutrality, and the fairness doctrine, which recognizes differences between men and women. The text's clear analysis and presentation of theory and history helps students to think critically about the difficulties faced by women in politics, and about how public policies in education, labor and the economy, and family and fertility, impact gender equality. The fully-revised fourth edition explores new critical perspectives, recent political events, and current challenges to gender equality, including the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton's candidacy, the fight for equal pay and paid leave, and the debate over reproductive rights and campus sexual assault. It also includes current scholarship on the intersections of race, class, and gender, and expanded coverage of minority women, women in the military, and conservative women. --from back of cover.
Local Note Steinem Sisters Collection
Subject(S) Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9780813350813
0813350816