Janet Clark lived among jazz musicians during her life. She was also addicted to heroin. This book is the story of her life and addiction, including references to the jazz world during that time frame. It also includes her time in the women's section of the controversial national drug treatment center in Louisville, Ky.

The first women representatives in the United States were elected in 1894 when Colorado votes sent three women to the state legislature. Now, a century later, women almost everywhere are the majority of voters but a distinct minority of elected officials. This discrepancy is a puzzle for those who thought democratic institutions would incorporate newly enfranchised women, and a problem for those working to expand democratic representation. Darcy, Welch, and Clark examine women candidates and candidacies in the United States and several other democratic nations. Their careful analysis reveals that male voters and political elites are not the barriers to women's election that common wisdom suggests. Instead, they find that a party's ability to determine candidate selection, along with election procedures that benefit incumbents, produces slow turnover of elected officials and few opportunities for new women candidates. In addition, the authors analyze nomination procedures and election systems to document both the conditions that lead political parties to nominate more women and the mechanisms that yield more victories by women candidates. Women, Elections, and Representation is an extensively revised and expanded edition of a successful text that provides a thorough and up-to-date account of research on women and politics.

"The authors take a unique approach: they reject the view that women should accommodate themselves to the system and argue instead that the system has an inherent obligation to accommodate itself to women. Using data from local, state, and national levels they formulate a model of elections. The authors contend that as the number of qualified women increases, more will run for office-and more will be elected. As more women are elected, the incumbency factor will assist in their reelection until the number of elected women reaches parity with that of men." -- Book Cover.

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Since 1980, most elections in the United States have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democratic candidates than men by nearly ten percentage points. Women at the Polls finds that this gender gap is quite extensive as it exists in almost all demographic groups and as it is based on similar differences in the political attitudes of women and men over a wide array of issues. This suggests that women are becoming an important constituency in U.S. politics.

Flowers For Algernon made its first appearance as a short story which was rapidly and widely anthologized, and translated internationally. It received further acclaim as a moderated television drama, and as a motional picture production. Now, full bodied and richly-peopled, Flowers For Algernon is the daring novel of a starling human experiment!

Wem kann sie vertrauen? Der abgründige Psychothriller »Black Memory« von Janet Clark jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Als Claire orientierungslos in einem Boot vor der indonesischen Küste zu sich kommt, hat sie jede Erinnerung an ihr früheres Leben verloren. Kurz darauf wird sie beschuldigt, ein Kind entführt zu haben. Nur ein Fremder scheint auf ihrer Seite zu stehen: Paul Brent, der behauptet, ihr Ehemann zu sein. Kann es wirklich sein, dass es sich bei dem entführten Mädchen um ihre gemeinsame Tochter handelt? Verzweifelt versucht Claire, sich zu erinnern, was wirklich mit Bonnie geschehen ist – und muss bald erkennen, dass hinter ihrem Schutzwall des Vergessens eine Wahrheit lauert, die möglicherweise zu schrecklich ist, um sie ertragen zu können ... »Mörderisch gut«, urteilt die Zeitschrift Bunte. Jetzt als eBook kaufen und genießen: Der packende Thriller »Black Memory« von Janet Clark wird alle Fans von Joy Fielding und Claire Douglas begeistern. Wer liest, hat mehr vom Leben: dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

Issues around the policing of public order and political expression are as topical today as in the past, and are likely to remain so in the future. Janet Clark explores the origins of the National Council for Civil Liberties (the precursor to Liberty) that emerged in 1934 in protest at the policing of political extremes. The book deals with police attempts to discredit the NCCL and the use of intelligence to perpetuate a view of the organisation as a front for the Communist Party. It also examines the state and police responses to this organised criticism of police powers. This book is essential reading for students and lecturers studying British social history, the development of civil liberties and of policing in Britain, as well as anyone interested in this enduring topic. Included is a foreword by Clive Emsley, Emeritus Professor in History at the Open University, and widely regarded as the doyen of police history.

This paper uses interview data from samples of male and female legislators and defeated female candidates in Taiwan to test three theories about the barriers to women's political participation female socialization, role conflict, and voter and elite discrimination. All three theories appear applicable in Taiwan. Socialization barriers can be seen in the fact that women legislators come almost exclusively from a narrow spectrum of society. There are significant role conflicts between family and political obligations, and there is also strong evidence of discrimination against female candidates by both political leaders and voters. Yet continuing modernization should progressively undermine the elements in traditional Chinese culture that support a subordinate status for women, especially because the "reserved seat" system in Taiwan provides an important incentive for getting at least some women involved in politics.