A comprehensive and valuable compendium of biographies of leading women in U.S. politics, past and present, and an examination of the wide range of women's movements.
With an emphasis on modern pioneers from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds such as Madeleine Albright, Linda Chavez-Thompson, Shirley Chisholm, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Winona LaDuke, and Patsy Mink, From Suffrage to the Senate covers the individuals, organizations, movements, publications, milestones, legislative victories, and court cases that have changed the face of American politics.
The in depth coverage also traces the political heritage of the abolition, labor, suffrage, temperance, and reproductive rights movements.
* Includes biographies of every female U.S. representative, senator, and cabinet member
* Bibliographical references follow each entry
* Chronology of 150 years of women's history
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Recommended for high schools studying the role of women in our society." - Gale.com "Collections needing aditional material on American politics will find this a useful resource." - School Library Journal "...a well-researched, skillfully organized reference on American women's influence on public life. Recommended for all public and academic libraries." - Library Journal "The particular value of From Suffrage to the Senate is the pulling together of often discrete shards of information into a whole ... an engaging tool that would be useful in high school, public, and academic libraries looking for an overview of the political history of women in the U.S." - Booklist "Schenken has done a remarkable job of organizing a voluminous amount of reference material into a work that will be useful for research on individual women and broader women's issues. Even when writing about sensitive issues such as abortion, she remains evenhanded and objective in this worthwhile purchase." - VOYA "...will provide authoritative, nonbiased information for students seeking to learn more about women, politics, and past and present social and gender issues in the United States. Recommended." - The Book Report
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Verlagsgruppe
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 12 years
ISBN-13
978-0-87436-960-1 (9780874369601)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Suzanne O'Dea Schenken is an independent scholar specializing in women, politics, feminism, and the political history of Iowa.
