Women In Congress, 1917-2017 (ePub)

Women In Congress, 1917-2017 (ePub)
Title:
Women In Congress, 1917-2017 (ePub)
Format:
EPUB
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GPO Stock Number:
021-300-00003-9
ISBN:
9780160936258
Description

Updated through the end of the 114th Congress, Women in Congress, 1917-2017 is written for a general audience and researched using primary and secondary sources. The 2017 eBook edition is based on the 2006 print edition. A revised set of essays reflects the considerable increase in the number of women in Congress during the last decade. The eBook provides readers the opportunity to link to the Women in Congress exhibition page maintained by the Office of the Historian, at http://history.house.gov/Exhibition-and-Publications/WIC/Women-in-Congress/. Readers can access there the profiles of every individual woman Member from Jeannette Rankin onward as well as up-to-date data and statistics, artifacts, and lesson plans.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 1

PART I: FORMER WOMEN MEMBERS
Chapter I: “I’m No Lady, I’m a Member of Congress”:
Women Pioneers on Capitol Hill, 1917–1934

Chapter II: Onto the National Stage: Congresswomen
in an Age of Crises, 1935–1954

Chapter III: A Changing of the Guard: Traditionalists,
Feminists, and the New Face of Women in Congress, 1955 –1976

Chapter IV: Assembling, Amplifying, and Ascending:
Recent Trends Among Women in Congress, 1977–2006

PART II: CURRENT WOMEN MEMBERS

APPENDICES

INDEX

Product Details

Publisher:
Government Publishing Office
Author:
  • Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives
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