Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress

ISBN-13: 9780197556542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

Assi Catherine N. (Assistant Professor of Political Science

Opis

In Gendering the GOP, Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women's congressional representation, it is necessary to move beyond an analysis of legislative behavior and toward an analysis of intraparty gender dynamics. Unlike previous research on women in Congress, Wineinger focuses exclusively on the experiences of Republican congresswomen to uncover some of the gendered implications of congressional polarization. Throughextensive interviews with women members of Congress and in-depth analyses of House floor speeches, Wineinger details how women have both navigated and shaped existing gender dynamics within the House GOP conference.

Recenzje

The book is comprehensive and advances our field-yet somehow it also manages to be accessible and well written. This would be an excellent choice, in whole or in part, in an undergraduate or graduate seminar, and it will also, I have no doubt, become a staple on the shelves of women and politics professors both in the United States and beyond. Wineinger's insight into the deep and relatively swift changes under the feet of Republican women at the congressional level, and how they navigate such tremors, is desperately needed now. Shauna Lani Shames, Rutgers University-Camden, USA, Politics and Gender

O autorze

Catherine N. Wineinger is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University. She has also worked on Capitol Hill as a 2019-2020 American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellow. Her research focuses on gender and representation in American political institutions. She is the recipient of the 2016 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics and the 2016 WPSA Betty Nesvold Women and Politics Best Paper Award. Her dissertation, on which her book is based, was selected as a co-winner of the 2020 Best Dissertation Award by APSA's Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section. Wineinger earned her BA from the University of San Diego and her PhD from Rutgers University.