Women and Congress [electronic resource] : running, winning, and ruling / Karen O'Connor, editor.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: O'Connor, Karen, 1952-
Other title:Women & politics.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Haworth Press, ©2001.
Series:Women & politics monographic "separates."
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Karen O'Connor
  • Early fundraising by nonimcumbent female congressional candidates : the importance of women's PACs / Peter L. Francia
  • Electoral context, issues, and voting for women in the 1990s / Kathleen Dolan
  • Candidate sex and congressional elections : open seats before, during, and after the year of the woman / Kim U. Hoffman, Carrie Palmer, Ronald Keith Gaddie
  • The political glass ceiling : gender, strategy, and incumbency in U.S. House elections, 1978-1998 / Barbara Palmer, Dennis Simon.
  • The electoral glass ceiling? Gender, viability, and the news in U.S. Senate campaigns / Martha E. Kropf, John A. Boiney
  • Do differences matter? Women members of Congress and the Hyde Amendment / Dena Levy, Charles Tien, Rachelle Aved
  • Speaking out : an analysis of Democratic and Republican woman-invoked rhetoric of the 105th Congress / Colleen J. Shogan
  • "How does she have time for kids and Congress?" Views on gender and media coverage from House offices / David Niven, Jeremy Zilber
  • Research on women in legislatures : what have we learned, where are we going? / Michele Swers.