{"title":"Dividing the Ranks","authors":"Kathleen B. Jones","doi":"10.1300/J014V04N04_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V04N04_07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V04N04_07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66673283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambitious Political Woman","authors":"Diane L. Fowlkes","doi":"10.1300/J014V04N04_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V04N04_02","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from a survey of local party officials, this study tests the hypothesis that the ambitions of women and men in the initial stage of recruitment are differentially influenced by socialization and party system context. The hypothesis that the ambitions of women more than of men and of Democrats more than of Republicans are related to socialization experiences is supported for the Democratic and Republican women but not for the men of the two parties. Patterns of socialization are found to vary by party and sex, although all activists are influenced by social ization across the life cycle; and all the ambitious are in earlier stages of the life cycle than the unambitious. The concept of countersocialization is introduced to explain the development of ambitious political women. Countrsocialization and politicization around gender-related issues in politics are not expected to restructure political conflict along a sexbased cleavage of the political elite. Rather, the political party context is expe...","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V04N04_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66673358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in Bangladesh","authors":"S. Dil","doi":"10.1300/J014v05n01_04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014v05n01_04","url":null,"abstract":"Women's lives in Bangladesh are governed by a combination of religious, customary and secular law, as well as social class. In customary practice, the interaction of Islam and Hiduism in southern Asia has resulted in the adoption of the most restrictive aspects of each religion with respect to the status of women. Secular law formally recognizes equal rights for women, but undermines this recognition by special provisions which treat women as dependent legal entities. But whereas poor, rural women have few opportunities for change, middle- and upper-class women are beginning to emerge, in small but significant ways, from traditional roles.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014v05n01_04","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66673391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex Differences in Politicization","authors":"D. Owen, Jack Dennis","doi":"10.1300/J014V12N04_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V12N04_03","url":null,"abstract":"The finding of significant preadult sex differences in politicization earlier by Owen and Dennis (1988) is explored further. Here, we examine the relationship between sex roles, mass media use, and preadult politicization. Using data from a study of 10-17 year olds in Wisconsin in the early 1980s, we discover significant sex differences in patterns of mass media use that favor boys. In addition, our analysis supports our speculation about a linkage between media use and politicization that is stronger for males than for females. Our findings recommend the need for further analysis in this area.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V12N04_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66677642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The War at Home","authors":"T. Shevory","doi":"10.1300/J014V13N03_07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V13N03_07","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the relationship between positivist epistemology, legal analysis, and the prosecution of pregnant women. Drawing on feminist analysis of science, the paper argues that legal thought and practice have been seriously distorted by positivist perspectives, especially in terms of narrow notions of what constitutes cause and effect. The critique of positivism provides a basis for reconceiving legal responses to drug use by pregnant women that are consistent with expanded notions of legal causation. Such an expansion provides the intellectual justification for expanding institutional interventions and encouraging a generally fairer and more satisfying politics.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V13N03_07","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66678447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nurses and Power","authors":"V. Bullough, B. Bullough","doi":"10.1300/J014v04n04_06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014v04n04_06","url":null,"abstract":"Nursing, because it was dominated and controlled by women, gave women opportunity for professional leadership roles that were not possible in any other professional group. One result of this opportunity was to establish a different kind of political view, separate and distinct from Robert Merton's cosmopolitan ve. parochial power, and which might be called internalist as distinct from externalist. The internal focus of so many nursing leaders led many of the feminists to ignore their real accomplishments; it has also limited nurses in dealing effectively with external power as practiced in the male-dominated world at large.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014v04n04_06","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66673128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering Our Foremother","authors":"Karla F. C. Holloway, S. Demetrakopoulos","doi":"10.1300/J014V06N02_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V06N02_03","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay we examine the significance and meaning of novelist Toni Morrison's works in terms of American culture, literary originality, Black faminism and women's spirituality. Our essay also exemplifies and examines some differences between a white female's and a Black female's response to specific patterns in Morrison's novels. We especially examine portraits of old Black women and their spiritual/political significance as foremothers whose survival ensured ours, brought us into being, and gives us strategy. We examine the meaning of these portraits of old Black women to both white and Black women. We use several critical frameworks: biographical, sociological, mythological, archetypal and finally theories from Afro-American studies and from women's studies. We also reflect on how Morrison's women have stirred and awakened our own memories of older women in our lives.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V06N02_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66674387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Theoretical Model of Countermovements and Constitutional Change","authors":"N. Mcglen, Karen G. O'Connor","doi":"10.1300/J014V08N03_03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V08N03_03","url":null,"abstract":"Using a modified resource mobilization perspective this article introduces hypotheses concerning the motivation for the development of countermovements. The anti-ERA Movement is used as a case study to explore the theoretical model of countermovements and constitutional change that is proposed.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V08N03_03","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66675156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women and the Constitution","authors":"S. O'connor","doi":"10.1300/J014v10n02_02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014v10n02_02","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an overview of the history of women and the U.S. Constitution. It highlights the exclusion of women from most political and economic protections provided men. The critical role of the application of the Equal Protection Clause to women from 1971 to the 1990s is stressed. The importance of the interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices for women is made evident.","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014v10n02_02","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66676340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State Constitutions and Women","authors":"S. Macmanus","doi":"10.1300/J014V10N02_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J014V10N02_10","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the content and success rate of constitutional changes relating to women's issues that were proposed in the 50 states between 1977 and 1985. Women's issues are defined as those that impact disproportionately on women as a consequence of demographic, socioeconomic, biological, or attitudinal and policy preference patterns. The results show that change proposals benefiting women have been most successful in the economic (taxation, pensions), personal safety (victims' rights, individual right to self defense, restrictions on bail and release of repeat offenders [especially for sexual and violent crimes]), suffrage,health, and gender and racially neutral language arenas. Slightly lower but still relatively high success rates are observable with regard to civil rights and civil liberties issues. Successes were greater when proposals targeted rights or services for the elderly (e.g., economic, taxation and retirement, health, and some housing) but were less common when they specifically si...","PeriodicalId":83535,"journal":{"name":"Women & politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1300/J014V10N02_10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66676940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}