Acknowledgments
Contributors
Contents
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Women, Politics, and Change - Louise A. Tilly / Patricia Gurin
Part II. Protopolitics and Fluid Boundaries
Chapter 2. Women and American Politics, 1880-1920 - Suzanne Lebsock
Chapter 3. Varieties of Voluntarism: Class, Ethnicity, and Women's Activism in Tampa - Nancy A. Hewitt
Chapter 4. Gender and Trade Unionism in Historical Perspective - Ruth Milkman
Chapter 5. The Political Implications of Black and White Women's Work in the South, 1890-1965 - Jacqueline Jones
Chapter 6. Power Surrendered, Power Restored: The Politics of Work and Family Among Hispanic Garment Workers in California and Florida - M. Patricia Fernández-Kelly / Anna M. García
Part III. Electoral Politics
Chapter 7. Across the Great Divide: Women in Politics Before and After 1920 - Nancy F. Cott
Chapter 8. Women and Citizenship in the 1920s - Kristi Andersen
Chapter 9. In Politics to Stay: Black Women Leaders and Party Politics in the 1920s - Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Chapter 10. Women in Party Politics - M. Kent Jennings
Chapter 11. On the Origins of Political Disunity Among Women - David O. Sears / Leonie Huddy
Part IV. Continuities and Discontinuities in Women's Political Voluntarism
Chapter 12. American Women in the 1950s: Nonpartisan Politics and Women's Politicization - Susan Ware
Chapter 13. Religion: Inhibitor or Facilitator of Political Involvement Among Women? - Robert Wuthnow / William Lehrman
Chapter 14. Organizing for the ERA: Cracks in the Facade of Unity - Jane J. Mansbridge
Chapter 15. Representing Women in Washington: Sisterhood and Pressure Politics - Kay Lehman Schlozman
Chapter 16. The Mobilization of Members in Women's Associations - David Knoke
Part V. The Politicization of Gender
Chapter 17. The Gender, Race, and Class Origins of Early Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: A Comparison of Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid - Barbara J. Nelson
Chapter 18. Women, Family, and Politics: Farmer-Labor Women and Social Policy in the Great Depression - Elizabeth Faue
Chapter 19. From Protection to Equal Opportunity: The Revolution in Women's Legal Status - Jo Freeman
Chapter 20. Women and Divorce Reform - Herbert Jacob
Chapter 21. Freedom, Fantasy, Foes, and Feminism: The Debate Around Pornography - Alida Brill
Chapter 22. The Two Worlds of Women of the New Right - Rebecca Klatch
Part VI. Afterword
Chapter 23. Women in American Politics - Sidney Verba
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index