Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions by Susan J. Carroll

By Susan J. Carroll

This quantity brings jointly best students within the box of ladies and politics to supply an account of modern advancements and the demanding situations that the long run brings for ladies in American Politics. The ebook examines women's participation within the electoral enviornment and the rising scholarship at the dating among the media and girls in politics, the participation of ladies of color, and women's activism outdoors the electoral area. This quantity demonstrates either the wealth of information approximately ladies and American politics through the present new release of students and the sizeable quantity and variety of very important examine questions, which pose a problem for the subsequent iteration.

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As officeholders and as voters). However, this volume also draws attention to the importance of expanding our research agenda into new areas. Consequently, the third section of the book focuses on new directions in research on women and politics, highlighting emerging, but as yet underdeveloped, areas for research. 22 SUSAN J. CARROLL AND DEBRA J. LIEBOWITZ The three chapters in Part I of this volume focus on various aspects of women's candidacies for public office. ” Githens calls for increased attention to the relationship between involvement in electoral politics and involvement in social movements and civic organizations.

Is women's involvement in social movement politics simply a function of the opportunity structures in electoral politics? Did the women's movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries come into being because there were no other means available to women to place their issues on the public agenda? Are women's movements a way for women to organize themselves to achieve specific goals when the traditional methods for affecting political outcomes are THE PERENNIAL PROBLEM OF RECRUITMENT 41 not available to them?

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