| 54-7 Sex, Gender, and Policy in American Political Development |
| Date: | Friday, April 13 2:40 pm |
| Chair(s): | Melinda R. Tarsi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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| Paper(s): | Same-Sex Marriage in the 1970s |
| This paper examines the movement for same-sex marriage in the 1970s and calls for a shift the narrative about marriage equality advocacy in the decade from that of a fool's errand to a natural extension of emerging lesbian and gay rights advocacy. |
| Jason Pierceson, University of Illinois, Springfield
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| Constituting Female Athlete as Political Identity: U.S. Politics of Sex, Gender, and Title IX in the 1970s |
| How did political conflict over Title IX’s application to athletics “hail into being” the political identity of “female athlete”? This work analyzes archival data to show how contest over policy interpretation constructed gendered political identity. |
| Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Minnesota
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| The End of the White Male Republic: State Constitutional Debates and the Right to Vote in the Civil War and Post-Bellum Era |
| Reconstruction is usually presented as a failed effort to re-configure American citizenship. Analysis of votes and debates in State constitutional conventions suggests a more limited intent, which was both more successful and normatively problematic. |
| David Alexander Bateman, University of Pennsylvania
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| The Nineteenth Amendment and the Mobilization of Women |
| In 1920, women achieved parity in turnout or surpassed men in some places; in others, few women voted. Women in Republican areas were more likely to vote. This offers part of an explanation for the decline of the socialist movement in the 1920s. |
| Tony L. Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Discussant(s): | Jesse Hessler Rhodes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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| Melinda R. Tarsi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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