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The Paradox of Gender Equality: How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice
2020, New Edition, With a New Preface Kristin A. Goss
Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. As measured by women's groups' appearances before the U.S. Congress, women's collective political engagement continued to grow between 1920 and 1960—when many conventional accounts claim it declined—and declined after 1980, when it might have been expected to grow.
Goss asks what women have gained, and perhaps lost, through expanded incorporation, as well as whether single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century America.
Goss asks what women have gained, and perhaps lost, through expanded incorporation, as well as whether single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century America.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface to the 2020 Edition
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One. Women’s Citizenship and American Democracy
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Two. Suffrage and the Rise of Women’s Policy Advocacy
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Three. The Second Wave Surges—And Then?
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Four. From Public Interest to “Special Interests”
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Five. Sameness, Difference, and Women’s Civic Place
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Six. What Drove the Changes? The Not-So-Easy Answers
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Seven. How Public Policy Shaped Women’s Civic Place
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Eight. Women, Citizenship, and Public Policy in the 21st Century
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Appendix A. Congressional Hearings Data and Other Sources
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Appendix B. How the Foreign and Health Policy Testimony Was Selected
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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2012, 1st Edition
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Published: 2020
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-12700-9 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-03783-4 (paper)