Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics

Book Overview

The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture and how it influences Americans' perceptions of the country's highest political office. In this timely volume, editors Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren lead a team of scholars in examining how the

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081314101X
• ISBN13: 9780813141015
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up