A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country, by Ilene Cooper ; illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley ; foreword by Former U.S. senator Olympia Snowe

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A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country, by Ilene Cooper ; illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley ; foreword by Former U.S. senator Olympia Snowe

Title remainder

how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country

Statement of responsibility

by Ilene Cooper ; illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley ; foreword by Former U.S. senator Olympia Snowe

Instantiates

• A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country

Publication

• New York, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" (Jeanette Rankin, Alice Mary Robertson) -- Flash and crash, 1920-1930 (Rebecca Felton, Winnifred Huck, Mae Nolan, Katherine Langley, Florence Kahn, Mary Norton, Edith Rogers, Ruth Hanna McCormick, Ruth Bryan Owen) -- Hard times: Depression, war, and the Red menace, 1931-1953 (Hattie Caraway, Pearl Oldfield, Effiegene Wingo, Margaret Chase Smith, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Gahagan Douglas) -- Settling down and stirring things up, 1954-1963 (Florence Dwyer, Frances Payne Bolton, Marguerite Church, Leonor K. Sullivan, Martha Wright Griffiths) -- "A change is gonna come," 1964-1979 (Patsy Takemoto Mink, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Cardiss Collins, Bella Abzug, Millicent Fenwick, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Maurine Neuberger, Nancy Landon Kassebaum) -- The calm before the storm, 1980-1999 (Carol Moseley Braun, Dianne Fienstein, Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, Barbara Mikulski, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins) -- An unsettling decade, 2000-2010 (Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Cantwell, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Mary Landrieu, Deborah Stabenow, Lisa Murkowski, Elizabeth Dole, Nancy Pelosi) -- What goes up must come down, and goes back up! (Gabrielle Giffords, Michele Bachman, Deb Fischer, Mazie Hirono, Elizabeth Warren, Heidi Heitkamp, Tammy Baldwin, Tammy Duckworth, Ann McLane Kuster, Carol Shea-Porter, Kelly Ayotte, Jeanne Shaheen)

Dimensions

26 cm

Extent

134 pages

Isbn

9781419710360

Isbn Type

(hbk.)

Lccn

2013022201

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Other physical details

illustrations (some color)

Record ID

521112

System control number

• ocn854541600
• 521112
• (OCoLC)854541600