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Attitudes to Women in American Political Science*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Judith Evans
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Government and Opposition , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1980 , pp. 101 - 114
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1980

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References

1 It is, of course, difficult to prove a negative. For what it is worth, little work on women and politics has appeared in Britain and the papers I discuss here are rarely cited.

2 Goot, M. and Reid, E., ‘Women and Voting Studies’, Sage Professional Papers in Contemporary Political Sociology, 1975;Google Scholar Bourque, S. and Grossholtz, J., ‘Politics an Unnatural Practice’, Politics and Society, 1974.CrossRefGoogle Scholar See also Morgan, J., ‘Women and Political Socialization’, Politics, Sydney, 1974 Google Scholar.

3 Iglitzin, L., ‘Political Education and Sexual Liberation’, Politics and Society, 1972;Google Scholar ‘Sex‐Typing and Politicization in Children’s Attitudes', paper delivered to the Annual General Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1972, published in a revised version as ‘The Making of the Apolitical Woman’ in Jacquette, J. (ed.), Women in Politics, New York, Wiley, 1974 Google Scholar.

4 Goot and Reid, op. cit., p. 6.

5 Lane, R., Political Life, Glencoe, The Free Press, 1959, p. 355 Google Scholar.

6 Bourque and Grossholtz, op. cit., p. 257; Almond, G. and Verba, S., The Civic Culture, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1963, p. 399 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 Goot and Reid, op. cit., p. 6.

8 Op. cit., pp. 6–7.

9 Op. cit., p. 10; Hess, R. and Torney, J., The Development of Political Attitudes in Children, New York, Doubleday, 1968, pp. 103, 105 Google Scholar.

10 Op. cit., p. 26; Trenaman, J. and McQuaa, D., Television and the Political Image, London, Methuen, 1961, p. 40 Google Scholar.

11 Jaros, D., Socialization to Politics, London, Nelson, 1973, p. 87 Google Scholar.

12 Goot and Reid, op. cit., p. 30; see also Bourque, and Grossholtz, , op. cit., pp. 261–262 Google Scholar.

13 Goot and Reid, op. cit., p. 30; Riesman, D., ‘Orbits of Tolerance, Interviewers and Elites’, Public Opinion Quarterly, 1956, pp. 58–59 Google Scholar.

14 Goot and Reid, op. cit., p. 31; Lane, op. cit., pp. 212–213.

15 Op. cit., p. 7.

16 For at the mass level, men are not much more likely than women to participate; and indeed, there are subgroups where women outperform men. See, inter alia, M. Lansing, ‘The American Woman’, in Jacquette, op cit..

17 Op. cit., p. 252.

18 Op. cit., pp. 252–253; Hunter, F., Community Power Structure, North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press, 1953;Google Scholar Dahl, R., Who Governs?, Yale, Yale University Press, 1961 Google Scholar.

19 Op. cit., p. 253; Presthus, R., Men at the Top, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1964, p. 97 Google Scholar.

20 Op. cit., p. 33; Schattschneider, E., The Semi‐Sovereign People, New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1950, pp. 104–105 Google Scholar.

21 op. cit., p. 33.

22 op. cit., p. 35.

23 Op. cit., p. 263.

24 See my ‘Women and Politics: a Reappraisal’ for a discussion of Goot and Reid's view of the attitudes of political parties.

25 Op. cit., p. 261.

26 op. cit., p. 35.

27 ‘Political Education and Sexual Liberation’, pp. 249–250.

28 Op. cit., p. 249; Easton, D. and Dennis, J., Children in the Political System, New York, McGraw Hill, 1969, pp. 342–343 Google Scholar.

29 Op. cit., pp. 249–250.

30 Op. cit., p. 254.

31 ‘Sex‐typing and Politicization’, pp. 10–12.

32 Op. cit., p. 12 (emphasis mine.)

33 Op. cit., p. 14.

34 Op. cit., pp. 14–15.

35 Op. cit., pp. 19–20.

36 There is an element of this in Bourque and Grossholtz, but they believe that women have accepted the masculine view of politics. Op. cit., p. 261.

37 Op. cit., p. 24.

38 Cf. Dowse, R. and Hughes, J., Political Sociology, London, Wiley, 1972, p. 5 Google Scholar.

39 See Fay, B., Social Theory and Political Practice, London, Allen & Unwin, 1975 Google Scholar, for an analysis that would lead to this kind of argument.

40 Op. cit., p. 225.