Gender consciousness and politics Book

	List of Tales and Figures
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Feminism, Analysis, and the Search for Meaning	1
	Variations on the theme of gender differences	5
	Political thought	5
	Empirical analysis	11
	The recurring strain of gender consciousness	14
	Gender consciousness and feminism	14
	Bridging behavior and theory	16
Ch. 2	Tracing an Elusive Concept	19
	Gender role socialization and political socialization: Real or implied convergence?	21
	Traditional assumptions and ironclad illusions	21
	Reconsidering gender and political socialization	23
	Gender consciousness	27
	Eleanor Roosevelt's paradox	27
	Consciousness as a political concept	29
	Defining gender consciousness	32
	Saying "We"	34
Ch. 3	Measuring Women's Identification With One Another	35
	Women's membership in the "group" of women	36
	Group identification and politics	40
	Are women a group?	42
	Does group membership mean group consciousness?	45
	Women's gender identification, 1972-1988	49
	Women's group closeness	51
	Demographic influences?	55
	The influence of indicators of lifespace	56
	The adult socialization environment	58
	A Last Look	63
Ch. 4	The Intersection of Gender Identification and Gender Role Ideology	67
	Beliefs about gender roles	71
	Probing gender identification	78
	Women's closeness to one another and their beliefs about gender roles	78
	Gender identification, gender ideology, and attitudes about women	83
	Abortion, religion, morality and gender consciousness	88
	Identification, gender role beliefs, and day-to-day life	95
	Demographic influences	95
	How does one's position in the life cycle matter?	98
	The socialization environment	100
	Seeing the picture in more detail	106
Ch. 5	Gender Consciousness and Political Engagement	111
	Some historical meanings of privatization to women's political roles	115
	From the Renaissance to Mary Wollstonecraft	116
	The "angel in the house": Victorian passionlessness and women's purity	121
	Seeing the patterns	125
	Gender consciousness, internal political resources, and political behavior	127
	Particular aspects of political engagement	132
	The shape of one's world and the articulation of one's political self	139
	Political Woman	143
Ch. 6	Gender Consciousness and Policy Preferences	145
	Ideology: Sophistication, naivete, or indifference?	149
	Consciousness and Policy	153
	The choice of policy preferences for analysis	154
	Differences in policy preferences	158
	Liberal ideology or consciousness?	163
	Consciousness: The connection of behavior to attitudes	166
Ch. 7	Some Concluding Thoughts	169
	Appendix	173
	Bibliography	177
	Author Index	187
	Subject Index	191