Legislative Reform, the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues, and the Crisis of Women's Political Representation.

This article examines how the discursive constitution of women's interests through the policy agendas of the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues (CCWI), a purposefully bipartisan organization, has been affected by important structural realignments in the legislative process from the 1970s to the present. Based on my investigation into the ways ideas about women's interests and their representation circulate in the institutional space of the legislature, I argue that we need a more robust examination of the structural discursive conditions through which public rhetorics about women become translated into policy outcomes for women.