A Century of Votes for Women
American Elections Since Suffrage

Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.

Christina Wolbrecht (Author), J. Kevin Corder (Author)

9781316638071, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 January 2020

330 pages, 90 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg

'… a timely framework to evaluate the political roles that women will continue to play in 2020 and beyond.' Kristi Anderson, Ms. Magazine

How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women's (and men's) voting behavior, and traces how women's turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as 'the woman voter'; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.

1. Women at the polls
2. Women without the vote
3. Explaining women voters
4. Enter the women voters
5. Feminine mystique and the American voter
6. Feminism resurgent
7. The discovery of the gender gap
8. Women voters in the new millennium
9. A century of votes for women.

Subject Areas: Gender & the law [LAQG], Political structure & processes [JPH], Politics & government [JP], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1], Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ], Feminism & feminist theory [JFFK], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK]