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Christina Wolbrecht presents A CENTURY OF VOTES FOR WOMEN: AMERICAN ELECTIONS SINCE SUFFRAGE at the Boston Athenaeum

January 30, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free - $15
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How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women’s (and men’s) voting behavior and traces how women’s turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as ‘the woman voter’; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.

Christina Wolbrecht is professor of political science, director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, and Mr. and Mrs. C. Robert Hanley Director of the Washington Program at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage (with J. Kevin Corder), Counting Women’s Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage Through the New Deal (with Corder), and The Politics of Women’s Rights: Parties, Positions, and Change, as well as articles on women as political role models, the representation of women, and party positions on education policy.

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Date:
January 30, 2020
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free - $15
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Website:
https://www.bostonathenaeum.org/events/6882/century-votes-women-american-elections-suffrage

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Boston Athenæum
10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA United States
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Phone:
857-210-6973

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