Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how
women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120
years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these
changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which
granted women the right to vote and invited their democratic
participation, provided a dual platform for the expansion of
women's policy agendas. As measured by women's groups' appearances
before the U.S. Congress, women's collective political engagement
continued to grow between 1920 and 1960--when many conventional
accounts claim it declined--and declined after 1980, when it might
have been expected to grow. This waxing and waning was accompanied
by major shifts in issue agendas, from broad public interests to
narrow feminist interests.
Goss suggests that ascriptive differences are not necessarily
barriers to disadvantaged groups' capacity to be heard; that
enhanced political inclusion does not necessarily lead to greater
collective engagement; and that rights movements do not necessarily
constitute the best way to understand the political participation
of marginalized groups. She asks what women have gained -- and
perhaps lost -- through expanded incorporation as well as whether
single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century
America.
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