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A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics
A Room at a Time How Women Entered Party Politics Author:Jo Freeman Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton owe much to the women Republicans and Democrats before them. Just in time for election year 2000, Jo Freeman brings us the very full, rich story of how American women entered into political life and party politics-well before suffrage and, in many cases, completely separate from it. She shows how women carefull... more »y and methodically learned about the issues, the candidates, and the institutions, put themselves to work, and made themselves indispensable not only to the men running for office, but to the political system overall. In Freeman's own words, this book describes how women slipped inside the political house in the half century between the two great waves of women's political activism-a room at a time-and thus laid the foundation for the accelerated progress of the 1960s and 1970s, all the while building toward what may turn out to be the monumental elections of 2000.« less