''A Portrait of Marginality'' is a 1977 book edited by

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and Jewel Prestage on the political behavior of American women. It is an anthology of 22 papers on women's participation or lack of it in American politics. It includes a section specifically on African American women in politics.

Reception

The book was met by a positive reception. A review in ''

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'' concluded that the book "provides a needed addition to the growing literature on the political woman." Diane Kincaid of the ''

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'' wrote that the volume "will stand as a milestone in marking the shift from description and prescription to empirical explanation and theoretical development." Kincaid added that the section on

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

women" succeeds in vividly challenging the easy subsumption of "black women" into "all women" as a political behavior group." Jane S. Jaquette of

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calls the book a "welcome addition to the sparse literature of the field," concluding that it is an "essential anthology." The volume was reviewed in ''Social Work'', ''

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'', and ''Polity''.

References

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* 1977 non-fiction books American non-fiction books American women in politics {{AfricanAmerican-book-stub