Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal
Department
Political Science
Document Type
Book
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Description
How did the first female voters cast their ballots? For almost 100 years, answers to this question have eluded scholars. Counting Women's Ballots employs new data and novel methods to provide insights into whether, how, and with what consequences women voted in the elections after suffrage. The analysis covers a larger and more diverse set of places, over a longer period of time, than has previously been possible. J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht find that the extent to which women voted and which parties they supported varied considerably across time and place, challenging attempts to describe female voters in terms of simple generalizations. Many women adapted quickly to their new right; others did not. In some cases, women reinforced existing partisan advantages; in others, they contributed to dramatic political realignment. Counting Women's Ballots improves our understanding of the largest expansion of the American electorate during a transformative period of American history.
Call number in WMU's library
D16.3 .A224 2016
ISBN
978-1316505878
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York
Disciplines
Political Science
Citation for published book
Corder, J. Kevin, and Christina. Wolbrecht. Counting Women's Ballots : Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal / J. Kevin Corder, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. 2016. Print. Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics.
Recommended Citation
Corder, Kevin and Wolbrecht, Christina, "Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal" (2016). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 613.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/613