The impact of women in congress

Introduction: the best of times, the worst of times

Rethinking difference

Capturing the process

Representing women: the elite to elite connection

Representing women: the constituency connection

Reproductive rights: gender difference and the paradox of power

Reproductive rights: redefining the meaning of critical mass

Women's health: staying the course with a critical mass

Women's health: a shelter in the storm

Health care reform: the convergence of the politics of presence and the politics of ideas

Health insurance reform: institutional structure, contingent meanings.