Título:
A woman in the House and Senate : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country / by Ilene Cooper ; with illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley.
ISBN:
9781419710360
Autor personal:
Información de publicación:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Descripción física:
ix, 134 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Contenido:
"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" (Jeanette Rankin, Alice Mary Robertson) -- Flash and crash, 1920-1930 (Rebecca Felton, Winnifred Huck, Mae Nolan, Katherine Langley, Florence Kahn, Mary Norton, Edith Rogers, Ruth Hanna McCormick, Ruth Bryan Owen) -- Hard times: depression, war, and the red menace, 1931-1953 (Hattie Carawy, Pearl Oldfield, Effiegene Wingo, Margaret Chase Smith, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Gahagan Douglas) -- Settling down and stirring things up, 1954-1963 (Florence Dwyer, Frances Payen Bolton, Marguerite Church, Leonor K. Sullivan, Martha Wright Griffiths) -- "A change is gonna come," 1964-1979 (Patsy Takemoto Mink, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Cardiss Collins, Bella Abzung, Millicent Fenwick, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Maurine Neuberger, Nancy Landon Kassebaum) -- The calm before the storm, 1980-1999 (Carol Mosely Braun, Dianne Fienstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murrary, Barabara Mikulski, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins) -- An unsettling decade, 2000-2010 (Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Cantwell, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mary Landreiu, Deborah Stabenow, Lisa Murkowski, Elizabeth Dole, Nancy Pelosi) -- What goes up must come down, and goes back up!.
Síntesis:
For the first 128 years of our countrys history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress, even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the United States the right to vote. Beginning with the womens suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly covers more than a century of U.S. history in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of female leaders who opened doors for women in politics as well as the nation as a whole.
Información del programa:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.6 4.0 164481.
Materia corporativa:
DAK_SUBJECT_TERM_DISPLAY:
DAK_521_LEXILE:
1040L Lexile
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn854541600
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