Women, Politics and American Society

Completely updated, this engaging and historically-informed text provides a comprehensive exploration of the efforts, achievements and the setbacks involved in the movements toward equality for American women. The Fourth Edition provides the most thorough coverage of political history wedded to the most current data and present-day examples of any text. Exploring three basic themes--(1) political rights and realities, (2) employment and educational rights and realities, and (3) familial and reproductive rights and realities--Women, Politics, and American Society first traces the efforts of women to achieve rights in those areas and then tries to answer the question of why women still fall short of full equality. This lucid text offers excellent historical material, giving students the background necessary to truly understand women's ongoing struggles today.