Legislative Women : : Getting Elected, Getting Ahead / / ed. by Beth Reingold.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Burrell, Barbara,; Bystrom, Dianne,; Carroll, Susan J.,; Dolan, Kathleen,; Fraga, Luis Ricardo,; Lawless, Jennifer L.,; Lopez, Linda,; Martinez-Ebers, Valerie,; Neal, Melissa Olivia,; O’Connor, Karen,; Pearson, Kathryn,; Ramírez, Ricardo,; Reingold, Beth,; Rosenthal, Cindy Simon,; Smooth, Wendy G.,; Stokes-Brown, Atiya Kai,; Swers, Michele L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Reingold, Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)

This wide-ranging study grapples with the increasingly complex array of opportunities and challenges that face women today as both legislative candidates and elected officials. Offering cutting-edge, original research, Legislative Women expands our knowledge on an array of critical topics. The contr...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Tables and Figures
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Understanding the Complex World of Women in US Politics
• PART 1 Getting Elected
• 2 Competing in Congressional Primaries
• 3 Political Parties, Fund-raising, and Sex
• 4 Confronting Stereotypes and Double Standards in Campaign Communication
• 5 Symbolic Mobilization? The Impact of Candidate Sex
• 6 Does “Running as a Woman” Mobilize Voters?
• PART 2 Getting Ahead
• 7 Policy Leadership Beyond “Women’s” Issues
• 8 Committee Assignments: Discrimination or Choice?
• 9 Representing Gender and Ethnicity: Strategic Intersectionality
• 10 Gender, Race, and the Exercise of Power and Influence
• 11 Climbing Higher: Opportunities and Obstacles Within the Party Syste
• PART 3 Conclusion
• 12 Taking Stock and Setting a New Agenda
• References
• The Contributors
• Index
• About the Book