《WOMEN LEADERS IN AMERICAN POLITICS》

Part I. CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY1

1. COLONIAL BEGINNINGS1

Anne Hutchinson Speaks Out1

2. THE AMREICAN REVOLUTION13

Women and the War for Independence13

3. MAKING THE CONSTITUTION WORK24

Abigail Adams Counsels Thomas Jefferson25

4. CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION36

The Equal Rights Amendment37

5. THE FEDERAL SYSTEM AND THE STATES47

Governor Ella Grasso of Connecticut47

6. THE FEDERAL SYSTEM AND CITY GOVERNMENTS56

Mayor Jane Byrne of Chicago56

Part II. CIVIL LIBERTIES66

7. FREEDOM OF SPEECH66

Margaret Sanger Informs American Women66

8. FREE SPEECH AND "SUBVERSION"76

Angela Davis's Challenge to Power76

9. EQUALITY OF RIGHTS90

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Challenge to Slavery91

10.EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS98

Sojourner Truth and the Freedom98

11.OBTAINING EQUAL RIGHTS110

Ella Baker Organizes for Civil Rights110

12.THE CITIZEN AND THE LAW122

Women Attorneys in Defense and Prosecution122

Part III. GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE130

13.GROUPS IN ACTION130

Betty Friedan's Ideas for a New Women's Movement131

Phyllis Schlafly's Alternative: "The Positive Woman"154

14.COALITION STRATEGIES165

The First National Women's Conference166

15.PUBLIC OPINION174

Sexism in American Culture174

16.THE MASS MEDIA190

Barbara Walters Anchors the News190

17.THE RIGHT TO VOTE201

Declaration and Resolutions of the Seneca Falls Convention202

18.LOBBYING FOR THE VOTE205

Julia Ward Howe Addresses the Massachusetts Legislature206

19.THE FIGHT FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE208

Alice Paul Goes to Jail208

20.WHAT VOTES CAN WIN218

The Impact of Women's Suffrage218

21. POLITICAL PARTIES: THE NATIONAL CONVENTION235

The Women's Movement and the 1984 Democratic and Republican Conventions236

22.ELECTIONS246

The New "Gender Gap"246

23.THE IMAGE CAMPAIGN261

Women and the Arts of Media Politics261

Part IV. RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT272

24.CONGRESS272

Bella Abzug Enters the House of Representatives273

Margaret Chase Smith and the Senate Fight against Joe McCarty283

25.THE PRESIDENCY292

Eleanor Roosevelt in Action292

26.CONGRESS VERSUS THE PRESIDENT306

Elizabeth Holtzman and the Impeachment307

Barbara Jordan on the Principles of Impeachment313

27.THE JUSTICE SYSTEM320

Sandra Day O'Connor Joins the Supreme Court321

The Political Attack on California's Chief Justice Rose Bird329

28.BUREAUCRACY339

Eleanor Holmes Norton Reforms the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission340

Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole: First Madame President?345

29.FOREIGN POLICY353

Patricia Derian Versus Jeane Kirkpatrick on Human Rights in Latin America354

30.THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS380

A Woman Runs for Vice-President381

Moving Beyond Sexism394

BIBLIOGRAPHY399