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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Abortion and American Politics -- Abortion: A Concise and Contested History -- The Abortion Issue: The Search for an Analogue -- Conclusions -- 2 The Social Bases of Abortion Attitudes -- Attitudes Toward Legal Abortion: Methods of Analysis -- Abortion Attitudes: An Overview -- State Differences in Abortion Attitudes -- Group Differences in Abortion Attitudes -- Demographic Differences in Abortion Attitudes: Multivariate Analyses -- Conclusions -- 3 The Subjective Bases of Abortion Attitudes -- Ideological Self-Identification -- A Matter of Life and Death? -- Abortion and Gender Role Attitudes -- Attitudes Toward Parenthood and Female Employment -- Attitudes Toward Sexual Morality -- Putting Things Together: Multivariate Analyses -- Conclusions -- 4 Religion and Abortion Attitudes -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among Whites: Theological Traditions -- Denominational Preference and Abortion Attitudes Among Whites -- The Sources of Abortion Attitudes: White Evangelicals, Mainline Protestants, and Roman Catholics -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among African-Americans -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes Among American Jews -- Religion and Abortion Attitudes: A Comprehensive Model -- Conclusions -- 5 Who Is Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and In Between? -- Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Supporters: An Overview -- Pro-Life Citizens -- Issue Divisions Among Pro-Life Citizens -- Pro-Choice Citizens -- Issue Groups Among Pro-Choice Supporters -- Situationalists -- Conclusions -- 6 The Electoral Politics of Abortion -- Abortion and Vote Decisions -- The Abortion Issue in Presidential Elections -- Abortion and Congressional Elections -- Abortion and State Electoral Politics After Webster -- Conclusions.

An instrument measuring support for feminism over time is presented, consisting of a relative feeling thermometer with a 7-point equal role item, & tested using American National Election Study data for 1972-1984. Results show an increase in support for feminism, but a decrease in commitment to the movement. A demographic analysis shows that feminist consciousness was highest among young, college-educated, & employed women. This measurement is useful in the analysis of political groups. 20 References. A. Cole

An investigation of the effect of question wording to response patterns regarding support for feminist collective action, as found in the American National Election Studies (ANES). Between 1972 & 1984, the ANES survey included a feeling thermometer that measured affect toward the "women's liberation movement." In 1988 the survey substituted a new item that asked respondents to rate "feminists," & in 1990, the questionnaire changed the wording to "the women's movement." Here, data from the 1985 Pilot Study are used to compare responses to these latter 2 items for both men & women. It is concluded that the 1990 measure is a "harder" measure, eliciting more negative responses. The correlates of the new measure differ from the original feeling thermometer; however, when the feeling thermometer is incorporated into a multi-item measure of feminist consciousness, the pattern of correlations is very similar, suggesting that a limited type of longitudinal analysis may still be possible. 7 Tables, 1 Appendix, 9 References. Adapted from the source document.

Pamela Conover's argument that feminism helps women realize their feminine values & policy preferences (see SA 37:4/89U9009) is reevaluated using data from the 1984 American National Election Study (N not provided). Analysis indicates that, operationally defined, feminism has a similar impact on the values & policy preferences of men & women, suggesting that it leads to feminist, not feminine values. Conover's conclusion that the gender gap is due entirely to feminist women is also examined, & it is concluded that a gender gap exists among feminist, potentially feminist, & nonfeminist men & women. 3 Tables, 1 Appendix, 18 References. Adapted from the source document.