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Pat Schroeder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Pat Schroeder

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

This is the first biography of Pat Schroeder: outspoken Colorado Democrat elected to Congress in 1972, beloved by the left, and despised by the right.

24 Years of House Work-- and the Place is Still a Mess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

24 Years of House Work-- and the Place is Still a Mess

The renowned female politician shares her personal life and public career, detailing her first victorious election in 1972, how she successfully combines family and politics, and how she rose to the challenge of infiltrating the "guy gulag" of Congress.

Champion of the Great American Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Champion of the Great American Family

Pat Schroeder, the congresswoman from Colorado who is "the most prominent woman in our country's politics" (Savvy), writes a very personal book about her own family and the issues facing modern American families.

Confessions of a Political Spouse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Confessions of a Political Spouse

"Mr. Pat Schroeder" takes a candid look at how men deal with evolving gender roles.

Fall From Glory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Fall From Glory

From the prizewinning journalist who broke the Tailhook scandal comes a no-holds barred expose of the scandals, corruption, and avoidable deaths that have blackened the reputation of the U.S. Navy. photo insert.

Paving the Way for Madam President
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Paving the Way for Madam President

This book chronicles the lives, communication styles, and presidential bids of five remarkable women_Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Elizabeth Dole, and Carol Moseley Braun_while also addressing the obstacles and opportunities for women as presidential contenders.

Classrooms and Courtrooms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Classrooms and Courtrooms

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In this comprehensive volume on sexual harassment in K-12 schools, Stein not only summarizes legal cases and the findings of major surveys but also presents the students' points of view. Boys and girls describe their experience, telling how much sexual harassment hurts, how and when it occurs, and what happens when they turn to school authorities for help.

Wittgenstein
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Wittgenstein

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-03-31
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  • Publisher: Polity

This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character. Woven together with a biographical narrative, the chapters explain the key ideas of Wittgenstein's work, from his first book, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to his mature masterpiece, the Philosophical Investigations. Severin Schroeder shows that at the core of Wittgenstein's later work lies a startlingly original and subversive conception of the nature of philosophy. In accordance with this conception, Wittgenstein offers no new philosophical doctrines to replace his earlier ones, but seeks to demonstrate how all philosophical theoriz...

Women for President
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Women for President

Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's formidable 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of nine women who ran for president through 2008--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, Carol Moseley Braun, and Hillary Clinton--Erika Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates. The press portrays female candidates as unviable, unnatural, and incompetent, and often ignores or belittles women instead of reporting their ideas and intent. This thorough comparison of men's and women's campaigns reveals a worrisome trend of sexism in press coverage--a trend that still persists today.

Madam President
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Madam President

Takes a look at women in politics in the past, present, and future.