Description
This book is a collection of essays on women and politics. It discusses recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for women in politics. It also examines women's participation in the electoral arena and the emerging scholarship on the relationship between the media and women in politics, the participation of women of color, and women's activism outside the electoral arena.
WOMEN AND AMERICAN POLITICS brings together leading scholars in the field of women and politics to provide an account of recent developments and the challenges that the future brings for women in American Politics. The book examines women's participation in the electoral arena and the emerging scholarship on the relationship between the media and women in politics, the participation of women of color, and women's activism outside the electoral arena. This volume demonstrates both the wealth of knowledge about women and American politics by the current generation of scholars and the vast number and range of important research questions, which pose a challenge for the next generation.