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A woman's place is in the House : campaigning for Congress in the feminist era /
In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as are men. Why, then, are there still so few women members of Congress? Compared to other democratically elected national parli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. American Views of Women as Political Leaders: The Polls, Experiments, and Surveys
- 3. The Presence and Performance of Women Candidates in Primary Elections
- 4. The Backgrounds of Female Candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1968-92
- 5. Political Parties and Women's Candidacies
- 6. Sex and Money: The Financing of Women's and Men's Campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives, 1972-92
- 7. The Presence and Performance of Women Candidates in General Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives
- 8. Women Members of Congress and Policy Representation
- 9. Conclusion.