Political Women and American Democracy

What do we know about women, politics, and democracy in the United States? The last thirty years have witnessed a remarkable increase in women’s participation in American politics and an explosion of research on female political actors, and the transformations effected by them, during the same period. Political Women and American Democracy provides a critical synthesis of scholarly research by leading experts in the field. The collected essays examine women as citizens, voters, participants, movement activists, partisans, candidates, and legislators. The authors provide frameworks for understanding and organizing existing scholarship; focus on theoretical, methodological, and empirical debates; and map out productive directions for future research. Political Women and American Democracy is an invaluable resource for scholars and students studying and conducting women and politics research.

Spis treści:
1. Introduction, what we saw at the Revolution, women in American politics and political science Christina Wolbrecht
2. Gender as a category of political analysis in American political development Gretchen Ritter
3. Gender, public opinion, and political reasoning Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte
4. Gender in the aggregate, gender in the individual, gender and political action Nancy Burns
5. What revolution? Incorporating intersectionality in women and politics Jane Junn and Nadia Brown
6. Womens movements and women in movements, influencing American democracy from the outside? Lee Ann Banaszak
7. Representation by gender and parties Kira Sanbonmatsu
8. Women as candidates in American politics, the continuing impact of sex and gender Kathleen Dolan
9. Women as office holders, linking descriptive and substantive representation Beth Reingold
10. Theorizing womens representation in the United States Suzanne Dovi
11. Political women in comparative democracies, a primer for Americanists Lisa Baldez
Conclusion, between participation and representation, political women and democracy in the United States Karen Beckwith.