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100 Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism
Contributor(s): McCammon, Holly J. (Author)

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ISBN: 0190265140     ISBN-13: 9780190265144
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $147.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Comparative Politics
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 320.082
LCCN: 2017046486
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" L (1.70 lbs) 400 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote. The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's enactment, women's activists
disagreed heartily over how much had been achieved, whether it was necessary for women to continue organizing for political rights, and what those political rights would bring.

Looking forward to the 100-year anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, this collection of original essays takes a long view of the past century of women's political engagement to gauge how much women have achieved in the political arena. The volume looks back at the decades since
women won the right to vote to analyze the changes, developments, and even continuities in women's roles in the broad political sphere. Ultimately, the book asks two important questions about the last 100 years of women's suffrage: 1) How did the Nineteenth Amendment alter the American political
system? and 2) How has women's engagement in politics changed over the last 100 years?

As the chapters reveal, while women have made substantial strides in the political realm--voting at higher rates than men and gaining prominent leadership roles--barriers to gender equality remain. Women continue to be underrepresented in political office and to confront gender bias in a myriad of
political settings. The contributors also remind us of the important understanding to be gained from an intersectional perspective to women's political engagement. In particular, several chapters discuss the failure of the Nineteenth Amendment to provide full political rights and representation to
African American, Latina, and poorer women. The work also considers women's extra-institutional activism in a wide variety of settings, including in the feminist, civil rights, environmental, and far-right movements. As the volume traces women's forceful presence and limitations in politics over the
past century, it also helps us look forward to consider the next 100 years: what additional victories might be won and what new defeats will need women's response?

 
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