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  title info:
    title: It takes a candidate
    sub title: why women don't run for office
  name:
    name part: Lawless, Jennifer L.
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Fox, Richard Logan.
  name:
    name part: NetLibrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: xv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: 1. Electoral politics : still a man's world? -- Representation, equality, and the study of gender in electoral politics -- Traditional gender socialization in the context of U.S. politics : the central argument and its implications -- Traditional family role orientations -- Masculinized ethos -- Gendered psyche -- Organization of the book -- 2. Explaining women's emergence in the political arena -- Women and elective politics : the numbers -- Existing explanations for women's underrepresentation -- Societal rejection and cultural evolution : the discrimination explanation -- Institutional inertia : the incumbency explanation -- The candidate eligibility pool : the pipeline explanation -- The missing piece : developing a theory of gender and political ambition -- The citizen political ambition study -- 3. The gender gap in political ambition -- Very much the same : gender, political participation, and political interest -- Very much different : gender and political ambition -- Stage one : considering a candidacy -- Stage two : deciding to enter the first race -- The "winnowing effect" -- The gender gap in elective office preferences -- Conclusion -- 4. Barefoot, pregnant, and holding a law degree : family dynamics and running for office -- Raised to be a candidate? -- Eligible candidates' family structure and roles -- Wife, mother, and candidate? : family roles as impediments to political ambition -- Are times changing? : generational differences in political ambition -- Conclusion -- 5. Gender, party, and political recruitment -- Eligible candidates' political attitudes and partisanship -- Who gets asked to run for office? -- Political recruitment and considering a candidacy -- Conclusion -- 6. "I'm just not qualified" : gendered self-perceptions of candidate viability -- The impact of self-perceived qualifications on political ambition -- Explanations for the gender gap in self-perceived qualifications -- The sexist environment -- Gender differences in defining pol…
  note: Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Women political candidates
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: United States
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Sex role
    geographic: United States
  classification: HQ1236.5.U6 L38 2005eb
  classification: 320/.082
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2005011914
    identifier: (OCoLC)60028959
  identifier: 0511140886 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780511140884 (electronic bk.)
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 060502
    record change date: 20190326184030.0
    record identifier: in00002241057