Women's Political Voice: How Women Are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics [Paperback]

Janet Flammang (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 1997

Since the 1960's, academic and activist women have been challenging the conventional wisdom about political life and the study of politics. Organizing her book by standard political concepts the mobilization and participation of the mass public; the recruitment, policy preferences, and political style of public officials; agenda-setting; and coalition-building Janet Flammang subjects these concepts to a withering feminist critique based on the insights of feminist theory and the empirical evidence of hundreds of studies of women's distinctive politics.This book accomplishes four major tasks. It provides a comprehensive critical history of the changing research on politics and the changing nature of the political science discipline. It analyzes the course of women's political activism in the United States. It develops a rich case study of women's politics in Northern California's Silicon Valley, an area once nicknamed 'the feminist capital of the nation'. It examines coalitions and divisions within the women's movement with sensitivity to minority politics, as in the chapter subtitled, 'The Hard Work of Sisterhood'. "Women's Political Voice" records the transformative politics of the women's movement and, simultaneously, urges political scientists to ask new questions and to adopt new methods. Author note: Janet A. Flammang is Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University. She is the author or editor of two previous texts on U.S. politics.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Flammang (political science, Santa Clara Univ.) offers a prodigious survey of the last 25 years of political science literature concerning women. In doing so, she tracks the way in which feminist political scientists have changed scholarly thinking about political behavior. Further, she explicates the differences among feminist scholars, a group she divides into "accommodationists," who study how women fit into previously existing political frameworks, and "transformationalists," who have had the greater impact on the discipline by reconfiguring traditional concepts. As she considers each facet (mobilization, participation, recruitment, policy, style, agenda setting, and coalition building), she uses the city of Santa Clara, known for its large number of elected women, as a case study, a framework that is not entirely successful in part because the book lacks a conclusion. Nevertheless, academic libraries and large public libraries will surely want to have this important review of the literature.?Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.
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A new feminist approach to political science and politics --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 419 pages
• Publisher: Temple University Press; 1st edition (June 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566395348
• ISBN-13: 978-1566395342
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,088,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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