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Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008

1 online resource (xi, 263 p.) : ill., ports

ISBN 9781461646884 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0742556077 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0742556085 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780742556072 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780742556089 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida’s first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)847526971