Is There a Woman in the House... Or Senate? Book

Women's National Book Association Eighty Books for 21st Century Girls selection.

Using archival material as well as author interviews of pioneering lawmakers, Bryna Fireside tells the life stories of 10 outstanding women from the Jeanette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, to Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Barbara Mikulski, the only two women to serve in both the House and Senate. Is There A Woman in the House...or Senate? was given a thumbs-up as a best book for teens by the New York Public Library.

Biographies of ten pathbreaking women who have served in Congress: Jeannette Rankin, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Barbara Jordan, Millicent Fenwick, Geraldine Ferraro, Nancy Kassebaum, Barbara Mikulski, and Patricia Schroeder.