Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen
IN THIS DIFFICULT YEAR, we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. Paying homage to the suffragists’ victory securing the right for women to vote, this volume pushes forward the conversation they started, exploring why women’s representation in public office here has lagged so far behind other democracies.
Guest editors Jennifer M. Piscopo and Shauna L. Shames describe how suffrage movements around the world—from Europe to the relatively new democracies of Latin America—often focused not only on women’s right to vote, but also the right to stand for office.