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Elizabeth Snyder and the Role of Women in the Postwar Resurgence of California's Democratic Party
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Snyder's activism was closely tied to the resurgence of California's Democratic party following Adlai Stevenson's inspiring campaign for President in 1952 as mentioned in this paper, and stressed her own determination to traverse traditional sexual boundaries in politics.Abstract:
the party and stressed her own determination to traverse traditional sexual boundaries in politics. Snyder's activism was closely tied to the resurgence of California's Democratic party following Adlai Stevenson's inspiring campaign for President in 1952. During the next six years the Democrats successfully challenged Republican hegemony in the state legislature and won the governor's race in 1958 for theread more
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"We are neither male nor female Democrats": Gender Difference and Women's Integration within the Democratic Party
TL;DR: The authors explored the organization of women within the Democratic Party in the postwar period, using the unexpected dissolution of the party's Women's Division in 1953 to examine the way women active within the party apparatus understood their partisan engagement.
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"If We Can Nominate Her, She is a Cinch to Elect": Helen Gahagan Douglas and the Gendered Politics of Accommodation, 1940-1944
TL;DR: This article explored the gendered politics of accommodation that shaped Douglas's initial success and found that the Democratic Party accommodated Douglas in a winnable district because of her symbolic value as a woman who could stand up against Republican women in Congress.
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Working Women and Political Participation, 1952-1972
TL;DR: The authors examined the extent to which the sex differences in political participation (specifically participation in election campaigns) have narrowed over the last twenty years, and found that the change is due to a particular group of women-those employed outside the home-who now participate at a rate equal to that of men.
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From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics Since 1960
TL;DR: From Margin to Mainstream as discussed by the authors is a detailed and comprehensive account of women's participation in the American political system from 1960 to the present, which traces the growing role of women in the political process and describes the many issues around which they have mobilized such as the ERA, the Equal Pay Act, federal child care programs, and the appointment of women to high government posts.