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Tucson native Katherine Adam managed to turn her undergraduate honors thesis into a book, "The New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America With Women's Values."

That's a "rare accomplishment," said Charles Derber, her academic adviser at Boston College and now her co-author.

It was the first time such a thing happened in Boston College's 150-year history, Derber said.

It was also the first time that Derber, in 35 years of teaching sociology at Boston College, Brandeis University and the University of Chicago, had encountered an undergraduate project with "an original argument" strong enough for him to suggest that it become a book.

"I was increasingly impressed by Katharine. We'd spend a couple hours a week talking and started to realize it was an important idea, and we could get this into a book that could make a difference," he said.

Derber said Adam's research suggested that "feminized values" — usually associated with women but held by increasing numbers of men as well — constituted a majority view in America.

Democrats, he said, should be able to run successfully on a platform of progressive policies that spring from those values.

Adam finished the book in Tucson last summer, taking advantage of "free room and board" at the home of her mom, Pima County Superior Court Commissioner Karen Adam, and stepfather, Robert Glennon, a University of Arizona law professor. Her father, the late Dave Adam, was a sportswriter at the Arizona Daily Star.

Katharine Adam, who has worked on Democratic campaigns and interned for Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is now a researcher on childhood nutrition with the GROW project of Drexel University School of Public Health in Philadelphia.

Adam calls herself a "TUSD kid." She attended Tully Elementary, Pistor Middle School and University High in the Tucson Unified School District.

She talked about the book in a phone interview from Philadelphia.

"No. When Charlie approached me at the end of my senior year, I was really excited and thought it would be a great opportunity to have an intense writing experience with someone I really admired. I didn't expect it would lead to a book. The fact it was published was just a bonus for me."

"We define a set of values that are rooted in women's history. They value the ideas of empathy, equality, community cooperation and a preference for non-violent solutions to conflict."

"The Democratic Party has made it harder to see. Especially after 9/11, with the impact on force and aggression, America is more militarized and more aggressive than ever. You've seen a distinct push toward masculine symbolism."

"In a lot of ways, (Sen. Barack) Obama has done a better job of conveying these values. (Sen.) Hillary (Rodham Clinton) constantly tries to be the more masculine. She's worked really hard to portray herself as the tougher candidate. You've seen the red-phone ads? The fact Clinton is doing this to Obama is a really interesting kind of gender role reversal going on in this primary."

"(Sen.) John McCain is the hypermasculinized candidate. He will be the polar opposite of Clinton or Obama. I'm very optimistic that a Democrat is going to win in November."