Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making

by Nadia Brown

Descriptive studies of women in office have well documented the ways in which the gender and race of legislators affects policy preferences. However, descriptive studies of female legislators tend to treat identity as constant over time and context and so fail to account for the substantive work of legislators.

As Sisters in the Statehouse shows, it is not enough to disaggregate "women" from "Blacks." While scholars have long advanced the notion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199352437
• ISBN13: 9780199352432
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"