We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States /

Main Author: Freeman, Jo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
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245 1 |a We will be heard :  |b women's struggles for political power in the United States /  |c Jo Freeman. 
260 1 |a Lanham, Md. :  |b Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,  |c c2008. 
300 1 |a xi, 263 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 |a The search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen -- 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" -- How "sex" got into Title VII -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- The long road to Madame Speaker. 
650 1 |a Women  |x Political activity  |z United States  |x History. 
650 1 |a Power (Social sciences)  |x History.  |z United States 
650 1 |a Feminism  |z United States 
650 1 |a Political participation  |x History  |z United States 
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