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xiv, 308 pages : 23 cm "How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women's (and men's) voting behavior, and traces how women's turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as 'the woman voter'; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars"--from publisher's description Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-302) and index Women at the polls -- Women without the vote -- Explaining women voters -- Enter the women voters -- Feminine mystique and the Amer

Author

Wolbrecht, Christina, author; Corder, J. Kevin, 1964- author

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom: New York, NY: Cambridge University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781316638071

Subjects

Law, Political Science