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Dates: during 1980-1989
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POLITICAL SCIENTIST Ethel Klein's first book goes a long way towards proving several commonly held beliefs about women's political behavior. Her comparisons of the presidential elections since the Nixon/McGovern race show a sometimes small but statistically significant difference in the way women and men choose candidates and parties and rank issues. Gender Politics, however, may be more important for the future of the Women's Movement for what it says about the relationship between group consciousness and mass political action...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Politics and Women | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...Klein argues--in an academic thesis-evidence-thesis-impact style which occasionally tries the reader's patience--that women's changing roles have led to a transformation of their consciousness. This change in turn has provoked a recognition that they, as a group, are the victims of discrimination. Present day feminist politics has its origins in this discontent...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Politics and Women | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...Women's Movement to become an effective protest movement--one which would lead to legislative changes--its leaders had to attract wide-ranging public support from men as well as women. With due praise for the role of male feminists in the struggle for equal rights. Klein distinguishes between men's and women's commitment to feminist ideals. Although men may say they support big-F Feminism, they do so more out of a belief in traditional liberal doctrine than a recognition that discrimination has held women back...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Politics and Women | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...KLEIN has made an obvious effort to legitimize the feminist politics genre in the minds of mainstream political scientists. To a literature which has consisted mostly of fiction and pop social science works on women's political behavior--ranging from Bella Abzug's faulty prediction of how women would bring Reagan defeat in November to Gloria Steinem's telling collection of essays describing her personal encounters with sexism, discrimination and feminism--the former Harvard professor adds a quantitative and historically supported thesis about the genesis of feminist politics. She has produced perhaps the first unabashedly academic treatise on the often...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Politics and Women | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...means, read the rest Klein's work may not be as zippy or as timely as a New York Times post mortem on Gerry Ferraro, but it's impact on the Women's Movement will probably be more significant...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Politics and Women | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

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