Women Representatives in Britain, France, and the United States

This book compares British, French, and American legislative debates on woman suffrage and women's rights. Beginning with an analysis of Tocqueville and J.S. Mill on the impact of suffrage, the book continues with analysis of floor debates, comparing gender style, the French on parity and the Americans on the ERA and concluding with modern debates.

Autorentext

Harriet B. Applewhite retired after 40 years with the Political Science department at Southern Connecticut State University, USA and was named a University Professor and won the Faculty Scholar Award. She is the editor of Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 (1981) with Darline Gay Levy and Mary Durham Johnson, and Women in the Age of the Democratic Revolution (1993), with Darline Gay Levy.

Inhalt

1. Framing the Question in the Nineteenth Century
2. The Final Suffrage Debates, 1920s and 1930s
3. Women As Legislative Colleagues Voting on Suffrage
4. The First Women Legislators
5. National Contrasts
6. Conclusion: Women Legislators in the Twenty-First Century