Introduction / Jennifer M. Piscopo & Shauna L. Shames -- Forum -- The right to be elected / Jennifer M. Piscopo -- Forum responses -- Persuasion, not quotas / Alice Eagly -- Changing gendered expectations / Suzanne Dovi -- The battle for women's representation starts in our homes / Dawn Langan Teele -- Race matters too / Kerry L. Haynie -- Solutions designed for the U.S. political context / Kelly Dittmar -- The electability trap / Emily Cain -- Moving history along / Jennifer M. Piscopo -- Essays -- When quotas come up short / Marie E. Berry & Milli Lake -- Dreaming of democracy: Shirley Chisholm's political life / Zinga A. Fraser -- Save the ERA / Julie C. Suk.
Summary:
"Why are other countries so much better than the United States at electing women to office? In her lead essay in this anthology, Jennifer Piscopo argues that women in the United States haven't fought for the right to be elected. A comparative political scientist, she shows that suffrage movements around the world often focused not only on the right to vote, but also the right to stand for office. As a result, when these movements succeeded, they saw the right to be elected as a positive right, enabling nationwide-efforts to both encourage and actively recruit female candidates. In her exploration of positive and negative rights in the United States, Piscopo explores what might happen if a woman's right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected, considering, among other things, how our definitions of representational government could both change and restore public trust in democracy."-- Provided by publisher.
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