Kristin A Goss: 3 books
The Paradox of Gender Equality
How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their...
The Gun Debate
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for...
Disarmed
The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence. Each year, some 30,000 people die by gunfire. Over the course of its history, the nation has witnessed the murders of beloved public figures; massacres in workplaces and schools; and epidemics of...