Preface 1. Competing Visions of Women’s Rights: Two Paths to Equality 2. All Rights are Not Equal: Suffrage versus the Equal Rights Amendment 3. After Suffrage: Women’s Rise as Political Participants 4. Running and Winning: Women’s Political Candidacies 5. Women Governing: Representation, Leadership, and Influence 6. The Gendered Economy: Why Work Still Isn’t Equal 7. The Politics of Family and Fertility: In Pursuit of Autonomy 8. Realizing Equality: Advancing the Next Generation of Women’s Rights
Biography
Lynne E. Ford is Professor of Political Science at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Her teaching and research interests are in American politics with an emphasis on women and politics, elections and voting behavior, and civic engagement. She is author of Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics and coauthor of American Government and Politics Today.
Lynne E. Ford’s Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equality includes substantive and comprehensive updates in her engaging and seminal work. Ford provides a solid foundation for understanding the historical journey of women in the political landscape from multiple perspectives. Ford examines the political participation struggles of women that came before and offers encouragement and both practical and refreshing insights for political engagement and for shaping policies today.
Victoria Gordon, DPA, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
