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Gender and the American Political Process

To analyze the general role and value of gender in the American political process.

Required Reading

Freeman, Jo. “From Suffrage to Women’s Liberation: Feminism in Twentieth Century America.” Women: A Feminist Perspective ed. Jo Freeman. Mountain View, Calif: Mayfield, 5th edition. pp. 509-28, 1995, http://www.jofreeman.com/feminism/suffrage.htm (accessed August 3, 2012).

Carroll, Susan J. “Voting Choices: The Policies of the Gender Gap,” in Carroll & Fox (ed.), Gender and Elections, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 74-96, 2006. (eBook available in the APUS Online Library)

Bos, Angela L & O’Loughlin, Paula L. Gender and Politics in the U.S. Paper presented at New Research on Gender In Political Psychology Conference, March 2011, http://genderandpolipsych.com (accessed August 20, 2012).

Copeland, Libby. “The Rules for Female Candidates.” The Washington Post, November 7, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602489.html (accessed August 15, 2012).

Additional Readings

Heldman, Caroline, Susan J. Carroll, and Stephanie Olson. “Gender Differences in Print Media Coverage of Presidential Candidates: Elizabeth Dole’s bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination.” Political Communication 22: 315-335, 2005. http://www.capwip.org/readingroom/dole.pdf (accessed August 3, 2012).

“Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader?” Pew Research Center, 2008, http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/708/gender-leadership (accessed August 23, 2012).

Morin, Rich, and Paul Taylor. “Revisiting the Mommy Wars.” Pew Research Center, 2008,

http://pewsocialtrends.org/pubs/709/politics-gender-parenthood (accessed August 23, 2012).

Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzly” video, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsUVL6ciK-c (accessed August 24, 2012).