Tracy Osborn is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa

"Tracy Osborn's book takes existing research on women state legislators to the next level by exploring the institutional and political conditions necessary for them to 'make a difference' - or legislate in a substantive fashion on behalf of women. How Women Represent Women is a compelling book that will be important to the fields of women and politics, legislative politics, and American government."--Sue Thomas, author of How Women Legislate

"Tracy Osborn provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of how partisan identities and party control of legislative processes affect the attitudes and behavior of women legislators. How Women Represent Women serves as a clarion call for scholars to pay greater attention to how political parties influence the representational relationship between women elected officials and women in the electorate."--Susan J. Carroll, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

"Tracy Osborn's book, How Women Represent Women, offers a real and important advance in our understanding of how women act as legislators in general and on behalf of the interests of women specifically. Her analysis is careful, and her theoretical insights are supported by an impressive array of original state legislative data. The result is a must-read for anyone interested in gender in American politics, and indeed for students of American politics more generally."--Christina Wolbrecht, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame