A Woman In The House (And Senate)

Name: A Woman In The House (And Senate): How Women Came to Washington and Changed the Nation
Price: 18.99 USD
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Author: Ilene Cooper
ISBN: 9781419742668

How Women Came to Washington and Changed the Nation

For the first 128 years of our country's 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 U.S. the right to vote.

In this updated edition, beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2018 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. Featured women include Hattie Caraway (the first woman elected to the Senate), Patsy Mink (the first woman of color to serve in Congress), Shirley Chisholm (the first African-American woman in Congress), and newcomers like Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar. The book is filled with lively illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley and archival photographs, and includes a glossary, index, and chart of all the women who have served in Congress.