Madam President? Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House
  • 2020/227 pages

Madam President? Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House

Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman, editors
Hardcover: $85.00
ISBN: 978-1-62637-886-5
Paperback: $27.50
ISBN: 978-1-62637-887-2
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ISBN: 978-1-62637-921-3
With Kamala Harris now the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, scholars and pundits alike continue to speculate about why Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016. Their conclusions may differ, but few would disagree that Clinton's nomination by a major party changed the political landscape in significant ways—nor that the results of the 2016 election provoked a large number of women to run for office at all levels of government. The genie is out of the bottle.

The authors of Madam President? critically analyze the barriers facing women on the road to the White House—from gender stereotyping to biased media coverage, the conflation of masculinity and the presidency, gendered conceptions of leadership, and more.
Lori Cox Han is professor of political science at Chapman University. Caroline Heldman is professor of politics at Occidental College.