| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
1. Learning What We Know: The Complexity of Gender in U.S. and Comparative Executive Studies / Janet M. Martin and MaryAnne Borrelli -- 2. The Symbolic Effects of Female Heads of State and Government / Amy C. Alexander and Farida Jalalzai -- 3. President Barack H. Obama and the Rhetoric of Race: Between Responsibility and Respectability / Cory Charles Gooding -- 4. India's Prime Minister: Narendra Modi, Gender, and Governance / Sheetal Chhabria -- Sarah Palin's and Paul Ryan's Vice Presidential Acceptance Speeches: Gender and Partisan Appeals to the Republican Party / MaryAnne Borrelli and Lilly J. GorenII -- 6. The Impact of Presidentas on Political Activity / Catherine Reyes-Housholder and Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer -- 7. U.S. Presidents and LGBT Policy: Leadership, Civil Rights, and Morality Claims, 1977-2015 / Ariella R. Rotramel -- 8. Representation in and by the White House / Karen M. Hult -- 9. The European Union, Executive Politics, and the Women's Movement in Portugal: The Consequences of Europeanization, 1986 to the Present / Daniela F. MeloIII -- 10. The U.S. Presidency and the Aftermath of Revolution: Are Women's Rights Human Rights? / Janet M. Martin -- 11. U.S. Development Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenging the Foreign-Policy Bureaucracy to Implement Fully Integrated Gender Policy / Georgia Duerst-Lahti -- 12. Presidential Power, Partisan Continuity, and Pro-Women Change in Chile, 2000-2010 / Catherine Reyes-Housholder -- 13. "First Women" and "Women's Posts": Examining the Backgrounds and Credentials of Ministers in Five Presidential Democracies / Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson |
| Summary |
"Excluded from the ranks of elite executive decision-makers for generations, women are now exercising power as chiefs of government and chiefs of state. As of April 2016, 112 women in 73 countries have served as presidents or prime ministers. The Gendered Executive is a critical examination of national executives, focusing on matters of identity, representation, and power. The editors and contributors to this volume address the impact of female executives through political mobilization and participation, policy- and decision-making, and institutional change. Other topics include party nomination processes, the intersectionality of race and gender, and women-centered U.S. foreign policy in southern Africa. In addition, case studies from Chile, India, Portugal, and the United States are presented, as are cross-national comparisons of women leaders in Latin America. The Gendered Executive will enhance our understanding of the complexity of gender in and comparative analyses of executive politics"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women heads of state.
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Women government executives.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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Women government executives
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Women heads of state
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Janet M., 1955- editor.
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Borrelli, MaryAnne, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016015506 |
| ISBN |
9781439913659 |
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143991365X |
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