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The private roots of public action : gender, equality, and political participation /
Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? This book presents a study of this puzzle of unequal participation.
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
©2001.
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Table des matières:
- Citizenship and unequal participation
- Studying gender and participation: a brief discourse on method
- Civic activity: political and non-political
- The political worlds of men and women
- The legacy of home and school
- Domestic tranquility: the beliefs of wives and husbands
- Domestic hierarchy: the household as a social system
- The workplace roots of political activity
- The realm of voluntarism: non-political associations and religious institutions
- Gender, institutions, and political participation
- Gender, race or ethnicity, and participation
- Family life and political life
- What if politics weren't a man's game?
- Conclusion: The private roots of public action.