The paradox of gender equality : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice /

"Drawing on original research, 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. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and i...

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Main Author: Goss, Kristin A., 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Series:CAWP series in gender and American politics.
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Table of 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.