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...handily took her state's % Democratic Senate nomination. Last week Connecticut State Representative Julie Belaga defeated heavily endorsed former State Senator Richard Bozzuto for the Republican nomination for Governor. Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Carolyn Warner, took the Democratic nomination for Governor. In New York former Congresswoman Bella Abzug made a comeback after nearly ten years out of office, narrowly winning a Democratic nomination for Congress in suburban Westchester County...
...Unlike Abzug, who became famous as a leader of the women's movement, many of the new candidates avoid feminist labels. They play the political game by traditional rules, rising through the party hierarchy. Their presence in elections has become so commonplace that voters have almost ceased to notice it. "I think the (gender) issue has been neutralized," says University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Sittig. "The Nebraska candidates had established themselves long before this election. I think people see them as career politicians." Irene Natividad, head of the National Women's Political Caucus, agrees: "There are more women...
...MARCH begins. You are up front, with about 50 snapping cameras in your face. Bella Abzug is right behind you. Gloria Steinhem too. You join a chant: "We are Pro-choice," to the rhythm of "We are Penn State." Hundreds of people line the streets, clapping and cheering; a few look on, shaking their heads. An old woman stares right at you, as if in anger. Then she smiles, and raises her fists like Muhammud Ali. You smile back, and raise your fist, nearly dropping your end of the banner...
...Washington Monument and the Capitol. From there, they marched passed the monument to the White House and on to the Capitol Lawn for a four-hour rally. The rally featured speeches by NOW President Eleanor Smeal, Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, and former New York State Representative Bella Abzug...
KLEIN has made an obvious effort to legitimize the feminist politics genre in the minds of mainstream political scientists. To a literature which has consisted mostly of fiction and pop social science works on women's political behavior--ranging from Bella Abzug's faulty prediction of how women would bring Reagan defeat in November to Gloria Steinem's telling collection of essays describing her personal encounters with sexism, discrimination and feminism--the former Harvard professor adds a quantitative and historically supported thesis about the genesis of feminist politics. She has produced perhaps the first unabashedly academic treatise on the often...