DUE TO NOTRE DAME’S DECISION TO MOVE ALL COURSES ONLINE THROUGH APRIL 13, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE AT A LATER DATE.
A book launch to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage. A Century of Votes for Women will include commentary by the authors, Christina Wolbrecht (Notre Dame) and J. Kevin Corder (Western Michigan), along with Erin Cassese (Delaware).
Lunch provided at noon, talk begins at 12:30. Free and open to the public.
Presented by the Constitutional Studies Program and the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy.
About the book:
How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides unique insight into women’s (and men’s) voting behavior, and traces how women’s turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder show that there is no such thing as ‘the woman voter’; instead they reveal considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians, the press, and scholars.
For more informaiton, contact: jsmith70@nd.edu | 574.631.5351
Originally published at constudies.nd.edu.