Century of Votes for Women

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Century of Votes for Women

American Elections Since Suffrage

History of the Americas History Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies, gender groups Gender studies: women and girls Politics and government Political structure and processes Civics and citizenship Law and society, gender issues

Authors: Christina Wolbrecht, J. Kevin Corder

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Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 30th January 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 5 Mb

ISBN: 9781316947210


How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment?

How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades.

Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women's (and men's) voting behavior, and traces how women's turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular.

Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as "the woman voter"; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities.

The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.

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