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The Women of the 116th Congress

Author : The New York Times
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683357817
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Women of the 116th Congress written by The New York Times and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic celebration of the women of the 116th—the most diverse Congress in American history. The first woman Speaker of the House. The first female combat veteran. The first Native American women. The first Muslim women. The first openly gay member of the Senate. These are just some of the remarkable firsts represented by the women of the 116th Congress, the most diverse and inclusive in American history. Just over a century ago, Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first and only woman in the House of Representatives. By the time of the 116th Congress, a total of 131 were seated in both chambers. The 2018 midterm elections brought a seismic change—and this book, a collaboration between New York Times photo editors Beth Flynn and Marisa Schwartz Taylor and photographers Elizabeth D. Herman and Celeste Sloman—documents the women of the 116th Congress, photographed in the style of historical portrait paintings commonly seen in the halls of power to highlight the stark difference between how we’ve historically viewed governance and how it has evolved. Also featured are an illustrated timeline and list of firsts for women in Congress; “Her Vote, Her Voice” sections throughout that highlight historical moments in female politics; and an extended introduction and foreword by Roxane Gay. The Women of the 116th Congress is a testament to what representation in the United States looks like in the twenty-first century—and an inspiration for what it may look like in the years to come.

Women in Congress, 1917-2006

Author : Matthew Andrew Wasniewski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Women in Congress, 1917-2006 written by Matthew Andrew Wasniewski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains profiles, contextual essays, historical images, and appendices that provide information about the 229 women who have served in Congress from 1917 through 2006.

A Seat at the Table

Author : Kelly Dittmar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190915757
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A Seat at the Table written by Kelly Dittmar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of women in Congress is at an all-time high -- approximately one of every five members is female -- and record numbers of women are running for public office for the 2018 midterms. At the same time, Congress is more polarized than ever, and little research exists on how women in Congress view their experiences and contributions to American politics today. Drawing on personal interviews with over three-quarters of the women serving in the 114th Congress (2015-17), the authors analyze how these women navigate today's stark partisan divisions, and whether they feel effective in their jobs. Through first-person perspectives, A Seat at the Table looks at what motivates these women's legislative priorities and behavior, details the ways in which women experience service within a male-dominated institution, and highlights why it matters that women sit in the nation's federal legislative chambers. It describes the strategies women employ to overcome any challenges they confront as well as the opportunities available to them. The book examines how gender interacts with political party, race and ethnicity, seniority, chamber, and district characteristics to shape women's representational influence and behavior, finding that party and race/ethnicity are the two most complicating factors to a singular narrative of women's congressional representation. While congresswomen's perspectives, experiences, and influence are neither uniform nor interchangeable, they strongly believe their presence matters in myriad ways, affecting congressional culture, priorities, processes, debates, and outcomes.

Gender and Elections

Author : Susan J. Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107729246
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Elections written by Susan J. Carroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, and multifaceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2012 elections. This timely yet enduring volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2012 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential elections, presidential and vice-presidential candidacies, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, congressional elections, the political involvement of Latinas, the participation of African American women, the support of political parties and women's organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in US electoral politics.

The Firsts

Author : Jennifer Steinhauer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1643750216
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Firsts written by Jennifer Steinhauer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intimately told story, with detailed and thought-provoking portraits.” —The New York Times Book Review “The Firsts stands out as one of the most important and best reported books written during the extraordinary political chapter in which we are living.” —Nicolle Wallace, author and anchor, Deadline: White House on MSNBC NOW WITH UPDATED EPILOGUE In the November 2018 midterms, the greatest number of women in history were elected to Congress. It was a group diverse in background, age, experience, and ideology. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and “the Squad” to a group with national security backgrounds calling themselves “the Badasses,” from the first two Native American women to the first two Muslim women, all were swept into office on a wave of grassroots support. Here, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer chronicles these women’s first year in Congress, following their shift from trailblazing campaigns to the daily work of governance. In committee rooms, offices, visits back home with their constituents, and conversations in the halls of the Capitol, she probes the question: Will Washington, with its hidebound traditions and overpriced housing and petty power struggles, change the changemakers? Or will this Congress, which looks a little more like today’s America, truly be the start of something new? Vivid and smart, The Firsts delivers fresh details, inside access, historical perspective, and expert analysis as these women—inspiring, controversial, talented, and rebellious—do something surprising: make Congress essential again.

The Difference Women Make

Author : Michele L. Swers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226786476
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Difference Women Make written by Michele L. Swers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-09-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively demonstrates that, even though representatives often vote a party line, their gender is politically significant and does indeed influence policy making. Swers combines quantitative analyses of bills with interviews with legislators and their staff to compare legislative activity on women's issues by male and female members of the House of Representatives during the 103rd (1993-94) and 104th (1995-96) Congresses. Tracking representatives' commitment to women's issues throughout the legislative process, from the introduction of bills through committee consideration to final floor votes, Swers examines how the prevailing political context and members' positions within Congress affect whether and how aggressively they pursue women's issues. Anyone studying congressional behavior, the role of women, or the representation of social identities in Congress will benefit from Swers's balanced and nuanced analysis.

A Woman's Place Is in the House

Author : Barbara Burrell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083848
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Place Is in the House written by Barbara Burrell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996-01-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVStudy of women candidates for U.S. House that argues women are successful in winning elections /div

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gendering the GOP

Author : Catherine N. Wineinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019755654X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Gendering the GOP written by Catherine N. Wineinger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, one of the first to focus exclusively on the experiences of Republican congresswomen, uncovers some of the gendered implications of congressional polarization. Looking beyond legislative behavior, Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress reveals changes over time in the way Republican congresswomen (1) claim to represent women and (2) work together to advance their own interests within the party. Through extensive interviews with women members of Congress and in-depth analyses of House floor speeches, the book details how women have both navigated and shaped existing gender dynamics within the House GOP conference. It demonstrates that Republican women in Congress are not merely gender-blind partisans. Rather, it complicates traditional understandings of the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation, showing how polarization and party competition have incentivized Republican women to organize around their partisan-gender identity--distinguishing themselves from both Democratic women and Republican men. Doing so has increased their visibility as party messengers, while simultaneously limiting their legislative power in the institution. This book shines light on the ongoing challenges Republican women face, the intricate gender dynamics they must learn to navigate in their party, and potential opportunities for change. -- Provided by publisher.

Women in the ... Congress

Author : Women's Bureau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the ... Congress written by Women's Bureau and published by . This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Minority of Members

Author : Hope Chamberlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Minority of Members written by Hope Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

Author : Craig Volden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761522
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress written by Craig Volden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Women Transforming Congress

Author : Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134550
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Women Transforming Congress written by Cindy Simon Rosenthal and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first to one of the most recent--Jeannette Rankin (Montana, 1916) to Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York, 2001)--only two hundred women have ever served in the U.S. Congress. Have these relatively few women changed the predominantly masculine institution in which they serve? Have women as voters, activists, staff, and members made a difference? Edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal, Women Transforming Congress examines the increasing influence of women on Congress and the ways in which gender defines and shapes Congress as a political institution. Written by women in politics and leading scholars on Congress, the essays in this volume go beyond the limitations of prior research through their diverse analytical approaches and singular historical breadth. The volume follows women on the campaign trail, in committee rooms, in floor debate, and in policy deliberations where previously the focus was on men’s interests and activities. A gallery of photographs showing notable women from their earliest years of involvement with Congress to the present complements the essays.

The Impact of Women in Congress

Author : Debra L. Dodson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522759
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Women in Congress written by Debra L. Dodson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While existing literature provides compelling evidence that women in public office make a difference, the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women in political institutions long the domain of men is neither simple nor certain. Embracing New Institutionalists' warnings of the dangers of studying behaviour in an institutional vacuum, this book uses two strikingly different yet consecutive congresses - the Democratically controlled 103rd Congress elected during the 'Year of the Woman' and the Republican-controlled 104th Congress elected during the 'Year of the Angry White Male' - as laboratories to explore the complexity of the relationship between women's presence and impact. In-depth interviews with hundreds of staff, lobbyists, and women members of Congress, along with other quantitative and archival data, are the foundation for case studies of three highly visible policy areas (reproductive rights, women's health, and health care policy) important to women, but with strikingly different outcomes across the two Congresses. The inquiry is quickly moved beyond the simple question 'Do women make a difference?' Dodson confronts the contested issues surrounding difference which often lurk beneath the surface - the probabilistic rather than deterministic relationship between descriptive and substantive representation of women, the contested legitimacy of women representing women, and the disagreement about what it means to represent women. The analysis moves the literature toward a better integrated understanding of how gendered forces at the individual, institutional, and societal levels combine to reinforce and redefine gendered relationships to power in the public sphere. The results can be generalized over time and across settings, are meaningful even in periods when the answer to the question of whether women make a difference seems to be more frequently 'no' than 'yes,' and point to strategies that may bolster the impact of women's presence for substantive representation of women.

Congressional Pictorial Directory

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Congressional Pictorial Directory written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Are Women People?

Author : Alice Duer Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Are Women People? written by Alice Duer Miller and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of poetry concerning suffrage and women's rights, much of which was first published in the "New York Times."

Congress of Wo/men

Author : Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666704180
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Congress of Wo/men written by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing Ideas about Feminist Theory and Theology for the 21st Century In Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza challenges the tendency in feminist theory to leave behind religion—a space of struggle, resistance, and social transformation—as a place for feminist politics. She also confronts the tendency of religious feminists to view women as if they are all the same, or to limit them to complementary roles with men. Presenting an alternative vision for global justice within the landscape of neoliberal kyriarchy, Schüssler Fiorenza calls upon religious and non-religious feminists to engage in transformation through struggle, friendship, and community. Further, this groundbreaking book’s ﬁnal chapter opens up the discussion for future feminist work, drawing the reader into an imagined community of feminist readers with whom the reader can agree or disagree, but nevertheless struggle alongside to imagine a more just world.