The private roots of public action : gender, equality, and political participation

The private roots of public action : gender, equality, and political participation /

Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? This book presents a study of this puzzle of unequal participation.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Burns, Nancy, 1964-
Other Authors: Schlozman, Kay Lehman, 1946-, Verba, Sidney
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001
Subjects:
Political participation > United States.
Women > Political activity > United States.
Sex role > United States.
Social institutions > United States.
Gender roles
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Citizenship and unequal participation
  • Studying gender and participation: a brief discourse on method
  • Civic activity: political and non-political
  • The political worlds of men and women
  • The legacy of home and school
  • Domestic tranquility: the beliefs of wives and husbands
  • Domestic hierarchy: the household as a social system
  • The workplace roots of political activity
  • The realm of voluntarism: non-political associations and religious institutions
  • Gender, institutions, and political participation
  • Gender, race or ethnicity, and participation
  • Family life and political life
  • What if politics weren't a man's game?
  • Conclusion: The private roots of public action.

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