What influences political behavior more--one's gender or one's gendered personality traits?
Certain gendered traits have long been associated with particular political leanings in …

Arnold Schwarzenegger's celebrity status allowed him to project a symbolic masculine
persona that was effective in gaining political power as California governor. The well-known …

During the past three decades Americans have come to view the parties increasingly in
gendered terms of masculinity and femininity. Utilizing three decades of American National …

Explanations for differences in political preferences between men and women continue to
be debated, generating more heat than light in attempts to locate their source and potential …

Why Americans always elect men as presidents? It's no secret that there is a wide—and
growing—gender gap in American presidential politics. Over the past thirty years, Democrats …

America's founding mothers and fathers built gender bias into American politics. This book
examines traditional prejudices against women's political participation as well as efforts to …

While there are far more women in public office today than in previous eras, women are still
vastly underrepresented in this area relative to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that a …

Robyn Wiegman magine Bill Clinton's surprise in 1999 to discover that the privileges
attending the US presidency had so radically changed in thirty years that something as …

We examine which Americans were likely to believe that American society has grown “too
soft and feminine,” a concept we have characterized as gendered nationalism, and how …

This groundbreaking collection introduces the concept of gender power as a pervasive but
overlooked force within institutions, particularly US politics. It examines the ideological …