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Investigates and quantifies the gender penalty in American politics in order to answer the question: what will it take to elect a woman president?
After 250 years of American democracy and 47 presidencies, the United States has yet to elect a woman to its highest office. While numerous factors influence presidential election outcomes-including incumbency, economic conditions, crises, wars, scandals, and candidate personalities-gender operates as a crucial variable. This book examines the historical and theoretical foundations underpinning why only men have held the presidency before moving into a campaign analysis of the only two women to make it to the general election-Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
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Chapter 1: “Bring a Folding Chair”: Gendered Barriers to the Presidency
Chapter 2: “The Emperor Has No Balls”: Masculinity and the Presidency
Chapter 3: "A Different Hill Than Men Have to Climb”: Women Who Have Run for the Presidency
Chapter 4: “Vaginal Politics” and “Angry Black Women”: Intersectionality and the American Presidency
Chapter 5: “Such a Nasty Woman”: Hillary Clinton and the 2016 Election
Chapter 6: “An Extraordinarily Nasty Woman”: Kamala Harris and the 2024 Election
Chapter 7: “Angry or Afraid”: The Presidential Gender Penalty
Chapter 8: “Every Woman is the Wrong Woman”: Democratic Implications of the Intersectional Presidential Gender Penalty
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| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9798216392262 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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