Women and elective office: past, present, and future

Introduction : women and difference / Sue Thomas

Campaign financing / Barbara Burrell

How the public views women candidates / Kathleen Dolan

Women candidates for Congress / Heather Ondercin and Susan Welch

Different portraits, different leaders? : gender differences in U.S. senators' presentation of self / Kim L. Fridkin and Gina Serignese Woodall

Do women and men state legislators differ? / Michael J. Epstein, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell

Women and Congress : do they act as advocates for women's issues? / Michele L. Swers and Carin Larson

Women and Congress : behind the scenes / Debra Dodson

Indelible effects : the impact of women of color in the U.S. Congress / Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Katherine Tate, and Janelle Wong

Change and continuity in the geography of women state legislators / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox

Women leading legislatures : getting there and getting things done / Cindy Simon Rosenthal

In a different voice : women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene

Institutional gendering : theoretical insights into the environment of women officeholders / Georgia Duerst-Lahti

Women as political leaders worldwide : cultural barriers and opportunites / Pippa Norris & Ronald Inglehart

Prospects for cracking the political glass ceiling : the future of women officeholders in the twenty-first century / Jean Schroedel & Marcia Godwin.

The bottleneck: women becoming candidates / Georgia Duehrst-Lahti

Campaign finance: women's experience in the modern era / Barbara Burrell

Gender, political advertising, and the "air wars" / Leonard Williams

Voter reaction to women candidates / Elizabeth Adell Cook

Are all women state legislators alike? / Kathleen Dolan and Lynne E. Ford

Are women state legislators different? / John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, and Lynda W. Powell

The geography of gender power: women in state legislatures / Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox

Women at the national level: an update on roll-call voting behavior / Janet Clark

Representing women's interests in the U.S. House of Representatives / Debra L. Dodson

African-American women in state elective office in the South / Marsha J. Darling

The feminization of leadership in state legislatures / Marcia Lynn Whicker and Malcolm Jewell

Getting things done: women committee chairpersons in state legislatures / Cindy Simon Rosenthal

In a different voice: women and the policy process / Lyn Kathlene

Into the twenty-first century: will women break the political glass ceiling / Jean Reith Schroedel and Nicola Mazumdar.