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Suzanne O'Dea Schenken, FROM SUFFRAGE TO THE SENATE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN WOMEN IN POLITICS.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. 2 vols. ill. bibl. index. $125.00, ISBN 0-87436-960-6.
The year 1999 closed out a century of momentous gains for women in American politics, commemorated coincidentally during the year by new books from several reference book publishers. Oryx issued Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics, Greenwood provided a Biographical Dictionary of Congressional Women, Westview covered both women and minorities (The Almanac of Women and Minorities in American Politics), and in December, ABC-CLIO weighed in with this two-volume contribution with historical and contemporary entries on people, issues, court cases, organizations and events. Since the Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics (EWAP) has the most...