how women entered party politics
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Freeman, Jo
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3531 - B
- Thesaurus
- politieke participatie, politieke partijen, sociale bewegingen, suffragettes, vrouwenpartijen, vrouwenorganisaties, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- An overview is given of how American women entered into political life and party politics before suffrage and, in many cases, completely separate from it. The author shows how women carefully and methodically learned about the issues, the candidates, and the institutions, put themselves to work, and made themselves indispensable not only to the men running for office, but to the political system overall. Described is how women slipped inside the political house in the half century between the two great waves of women's political activism and thus laid the foundation for the accelerated progress of the 1960s and 1970s, all the while building toward what may turn out to be the monumental elections of 2000.