HELIN Consortium (Rhode Island's Higher Education Library Information Network)

Bingham, Clara. Women on the Hill: challenging the culture of Congress. New
York: Times Books, 1997. Call # JK1059 103rd .B55 1997

Foerstol, Karen. Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women. Westport,
CT.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Call # JK1012 .F57 1999

Foerstol, Karen. Climbing the Hill: gender conflict in Congress. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 1996. Call # HQ1391.U5 F64 1996

Molinari, Susan. Representative Mom; balancing budgets, Bill and baby in the
U.S. Congress
. New York: Doubleday, 1998. Call # E840.M65 A3 1998

Sherman, Janann. No Place for a Woman: a life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Call #. E748.S667 S54 2000



A biography of the first woman to earn a seat in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

The Library of Congress

Cox, Elizabeth. Women, state, and territorial legislators, 1895-1995: a state-by-
state analysis, with rosters of 6,000 women
. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Call # E176 .C77 1996

Crawford, Ann Fears. Barbara Jordan: breaking the barriers. Houston, T.X.: Halcyon Press, 2003.

"My faith in the Constituiton is whole, it is complete, it is total and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

Barbara Jordan, Testimony befor the House Judiciary Committee, July 25, 1974.


Diamond, Irene. Sex Roles in the State House. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1977. Call # HQ1391.U5 D52

James, Lesley. Women in Government: politicians, lawmakers, law enforcers.
Austin, T.X.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000. Call # HQ1236 .J35 2000



Keyserling, Harriet. Against the tide: a woman's political struggle. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
Call # F275.42.K49 A3 1998


 

 

 

 



Nelson, Albert. Emerging influentials in state legislatures: women, Blacks, and
Hispanics
. New York: Praeger, 1991. Call # JK2495 .N45 1991

Prabhavathi, V. Perceptions, motivations, and performance of women legislators:
A.P. State Legislature, 1956-83
. New Delhi: Classical Pub. Co., 1991.
Call # JQ620.A75 P73 1991

Rosenthal, Cindy Simon. When Women Lead: integrative leadership in state
legislatures
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Call # HQ1236.5.U6 R67 1998

Oxford University Libraries

Ashfar, Halef, Ed. Women and Politics in the Third World. London: Routledge, 1996.
Call # SOC Main Library HQ1236.5.D44.WOM



Dr. Lynne Ford, Chair of the College of Charleton's Poltical Science Department, has written a book entitled “Women and Politics: The Pursuit of Equality” The goal of her book, she says, was to "integrate the major topics related to women’s political involvement in a single text."

Ford, Lynn. Women and Politics: the pursuit of equality. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Call # BOD Bookstack M02.E04768

Watson, Paula. Women in Politics: Fact or Fiction. London: The Committee for Socialist
Renewal, 1984. Call # BOD Bookstack 24741e.643

Providence Public Library

Freeman, Jo. A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Lanham, Md.:
Rowman & Littlefield, c2000. Call # 896.973 F855r

Schenken, Suzanne. From Suffrage to the Senate: an encyclopedia of American
women in politics
. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, c1999. Call # REF 320 .082 SCH