Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equality - Softcover

Ford, Lynne E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495802662 ISBN 13: 9780495802662

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2010

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.

About this title

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 also has co-authored Declarations of Independence: Women and Political Power in 19th Century American Novels; Thinking About Public Policy; Public Opinion: Measuring the American Mind; and American Government and Politics Today.

Review:

"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

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0495802662
• ISBN 13: 9780495802662
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 496