Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equity (New Directions in Political Behavior) (New Directions in Political Behavior S.) - Softcover

Ford, Lynne E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618063382 ISBN 13: 9780618063383

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

WOMEN AND POLITICS examines the pursuit of gender equality from two viewpoints: the legal equality doctrine, which emphasizes gender neutrality, and the fairness doctrine, which recognizes differences between men and women. The text's in-depth analysis and clear presentation of theory and history helps students to think critically about gender and about the challenges faced by women today and in the past. Extensive coverage of diversity among women and consistent attention to the intersections of race, class, and gender are integral to the text's two-viewpoints theme.

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Review

"This theme is what drew me to the book and what I find to be the book's strongest contribution to the study of women in politics." Marit Berntson, Roanoke College

"One of the reasons that I chose this book is these themes (...the legal equity doctrine and the fairness doctrine) - helps students realize that there are multiple perspectives that one can take, and that the perspectives provide very different outcomes. I believe that the theme is consistently carried throughout the book and that it raises the level of the book."Ruth Ann Watry, Northern Michigan University

About the Author

Lynne E. Ford is Associate Provost for Curriculum and Academic Administration and professor of political science at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She received her B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in government and political behavior from the University of Maryland-College Park. Ford's teaching and research interests include women and politics, elections and voting behavior, political psychology, and civic engagement. She has written articles on women in state legislatures, the under-representation of women in political office in the American South, and work-family policy in the United States. She has also authored WOMEN AND POLITICS: THE PURSUIT OF EQUALITY and THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND AMERICAN POLITICS. Ford served as department chair for eight years and she has led a number of campus-wide initiatives including general education reform, faculty compensation, and civic engagement.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0618063382
• ISBN 13: 9780618063383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352