The story of how American women entered into political life and party politics - well before suffrage and, in many cases, completely separate from it. It shows how women carefully and methodically made themselves indispensable to the men running for office, and to the political system overall.
In this important volume, Jo Freeman brings us the very full, rich story of how American women entered into political life and party politics-well before suffrage and, in many cases, completely separate from it. She shows how women carefully and methodically learned about the issues, the candidates, and the institutions, put themselves to work, and made themselves indispensable not only to the men running for office, but to the political system overall.
