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Chapter 1. Introduction 3
Cindy Simon Rosenthal
Chapter 2. Knowing Congress as a Gendered Institution:
Manliness and the Implications of Women
in Congress 20
Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Chapter 3. Representing Women: Congresswomen's
Perceptions of Their Representational Roles 50
Susan J. Carroll
Chapter 4. Congress and the Transformation of the
Women's Movement 69
Anne Costain and Heather Fraizer
Chapter 5. Women's Changing Pathways to the U.S. House of
Representatives: Widows, Elites, and Strategic
Politicians 95
Irwin N. Gertzog
Chapter 6. Women as Candidates in Congressional Elections 19
Richard E. Matland and David C. King
Chapter 7. Are Women Candidates Transforming Campaign
Communication? A Comparison of Advertising
Videostyles in the 1990S 146
Dianne Bystrom and Lynda Lee Kaid
Chapter 8. Female Legislators and the Women's Rights
Agenda: From Feminine Mystique to Feminist Era 170
Christina Wolbrecht
Chapter 9. The Gendering of Cancer Policy: Media Advocacy
and Congressional Policy Attention 240
Karen M. Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine Sarow
Chapter 10. Transforming the Agenda: Analyzing Gender
Differences in Women's Issue Bill Sponsorship 260
Michele L. Swers
Chapter 1l. Women, Committees, and Institutional Change
in the Senate 284
Laura W. Arnold and Barbara M. King
Chapter 12. Transforming Policy from the Inside: Participation
in Committee 316
Noelle H. Norton
Chapter 13. Invisible Power: Congressional Staff and
Representation behind the Scenes 341
Cindy Simon Rosenthal and Lauren Cohen Bell
Chapter 14. Enlarging Representation: Women Bringing
Marginalized Perspectives to Floor Debate
in the House of Representatives 370
Katherine Cramer Walsh
Chapter 15. Legislative Careers: The Personal and the Political 397
Sue Thomas, Rebekah Herrick, and Matthew Braunstein
Chapter 16. Representing Women in Britain and the United States:
The Quest for Numbers and Power 422
Joyce Gelb
Chapter 17. Transforming the Future through New Leadership 445
Cindy Simon Rosenthal