| Description |
xiii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-234) and index. |
| Contents |
The bottleneck: women becoming candidates / Georgia Duehrst-Lahti -- Campaign finance: women's experience in the modern era / Barbara Burrell -- Gender, political advertising, and the "air wars" / Leonard Williams -- Voter reaction to women candidates / Elizabeth Adell Cook -- Are all women state legislators alike? / Kathleen Dolan and Lynne E. Ford -- Are women state legislators different? / John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell -- The geography of gender power: women in state legislatures / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox -- Women at the national level: an update on roll-call voting behavior / Janet Clark -- Representing women's interests in the U.S. House of Representatives / Debra L. Dodson -- African-American women in state elective office in the South / Marsha J. Darling -- The feminization of leadership in state legislatures / Marcia Lynn Whicker and Malcolm Jewell -- Getting things done: women committee chairpersons in state legislatures / Cindy Simon Rosenthal -- In a different voice: women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene -- Into the twenty-first century: will women break the political glass ceiling / Jean Reith Schroedel and Nicola Mazumdar. |
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Women in public life -- United States.
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Women in public life. |
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United States. |
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Women -- Political activity -- United States.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Women political candidates -- United States.
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Women political candidates. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Women in politics -- United States.
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Women in public life -- United States.
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Women in politics -- United States -- History.
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Women political candidates -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Thomas, Sue, 1957-
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Wilcox, Clyde, 1953-
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| ISBN |
019511230X cl alkaline paper |
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0195112318 paperback alkaline paper |
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