{"product_id":"suffrage-at-100-9781421438689","title":"Suffrage at 100","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.   In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senatea record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years. This is the first wide-ranging collection to historically examine women's full political engagement in and beyond electoral office since they gained a constitutional right to vote. The book explores why women's access to, and influence on, political power remains frustratingly uneven, particularly fo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. From Voting Power to Political Power\u003cbr\u003eStacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. A History of Women in American Politics and the Enduring Male Political Citizenship Ideal\u003cbr\u003eStacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Voting Rights Real and Imagined: Women's Political Engagement in the Decades after Suffrage, 1920s-1950s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Commemorating the History of the Nineteenth Amendment: The National Woman's Party and the Politics of Memory in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003eClaire Delahaye\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. After the \"Century of Struggle\": The Nineteenth Amendment, Southern African American Women, and the Problem of Female Disfranchisement After 1920\u003cbr\u003eLiette Gidlow\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. \"My Money's on the Mare\": Lessons from the 1930 US Senate Campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormick\u003cbr\u003eJohanna Neuman\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \"A Dead Husband Is a Better Ticket to Congress Than a Log Cabin\": The Public Discourse of Widows in Office, 1920-1940\u003cbr\u003eKatherine Parkin\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Beyond the New Deal Network: Mary Elizabeth Switzer at the Federal Security Agency, 1939-1945\u003cbr\u003eDean Kotlowski\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and Indigenous Women's Activism, 1943-1947\u003cbr\u003eHolly Miowak Guise\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. \"These Men Have Such Dominant Positions\": The Women's Committee for Educational Freedom and the Gendered Battle for Liberalism in the 1940s\u003cbr\u003eNancy Beck Young\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. \"I Have Talked to You Not as Women but as American Citizens\": The Gender Ideology of Presidential Campaigns, 1940-1956\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Estes Blair\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II. Women's Political Leadership Takes Shape: Reform and Reaction, 1960s-1980s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. From Suffragist to Congresswoman: Celebrating Political Action, Women's History, and Feminist Intellectuals in Ms. Magazine, 1972-1984\u003cbr\u003eAna Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. \"You Know Where I Stand\": Louise Day Hicks and the Politics of Race, Class and Gender, 1963-1975\u003cbr\u003eKathleen Banks Nutter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail: The Legacy of Suffrage and Citizenship Engagement\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Winslow\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Envisioning the National Women's Conference: Patsy Takemoto Mink and Pacific Feminism\u003cbr\u003eJudy Tzu-Chun Wu\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Married Congresswomen and the New Breed of Political Husbands in 1970s Political Culture\u003cbr\u003eSarah B. Rowley\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Madame Ambassador: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Global Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003eBianca Rowlett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Looking Toward a New Century for Women in Politics, 1990s-2010s   \u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. Palin versus Clinton: Feminism, Womanhood, and the 2008 Presidential Election\u003cbr\u003eEmily Suzanne Johnson\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. Tribute Politics: How Feminist History Became a Reference Point in the 2016 Election\u003cbr\u003eNicole Eaton\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18. Rooted in Community: The Scholarship of Chicana Leadership and Activism\u003cbr\u003eMarisela R. Chávez\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19. Pave It Blue: Georgia Women and Politics in the Trump Era\u003cbr\u003eEllen G. Rafshoon\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20. Putting Women on a Pedestal: Monument Debates in the Era of the Suffrage Centennial\u003cbr\u003eMonica L. Mercado\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21. Toward a New New Deal . . . and the Women Will Lead\u003cbr\u003eEileen Boris\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408139264343,"sku":"9781421438689","price":22.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421438689.jpg?v=1730501728","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suffrage-at-100-9781421438689","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}