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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Freeman, Jo.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 263 p. :; ill., ports.

Table of Contents

• Prologue : the search for political woman
• The Iowa origins of organized Republican women
• "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910
• The rise of political woman in the election of 1912
• All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia
• The women who ran for president
• Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman
• 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" : setting the agenda after suffrage
• How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy
• Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
• Comparable worth
• Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.