Beschreibung:
This book examines prominent women in the 2016 US presidential election—candidates, staffers, families, journalists, and organizers. The authors examine feminism, motherhood, voter expectations, the press, gender, race, class, and agency in this interdisciplinary work spanning political science, communication, and women’s and gender studies.
Women of the 2016 Election is an examination of women who played prominent roles in the 2016 US presidential election. The collection focuses on women from different parties, races, religions, and immigrant statuses who fulfill roles as candidates, staffers, first families, journalists, and grassroots organizers. The contributors to this collection give a unique view into women’s influences on an unprecedented election. They examine the roles of feminism, morality, motherhood, expectations of voters, the press, masculinity, femininity, race, class, and agency in this interdisciplinary work, which spans the fields of political science, feminist theory, communication, and women’s and gender studies. This is the election that gave rise to the Trump presidency and the #MeToo movement, and the women considered here have left trails and revealed how far there is yet to go for women achieving power in the highest echelons of American politics, media, and society.
Chapter 1: Carly Fiorina and the Face of Postfeminism
Chapter 2: Hillary Clinton: Communicationg Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
Chapter 3: Huma Who? Abedin’s Incomplete Narrative that Creates Public Reality
Chapter 4: Kellyanne Conway: Magnifying or Mitigating Trump’s Problem with Women?
Chapter 5: The Moral Conscience of the Nation: Michelle Obama and the 2016 Presidential Election
Chapter 6: Melania Trump: Slowly and Silently Moving into Her Unexpected Role
Chapter 7: The Princess sand the Politician: The Tale of Ivanka Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election
Chapter 8: Mothers of the Movement: Black Motherhood and the Political Power of Grief in the 2016 Presidential Election
Chapter 9: The Rhetorical Unburdening of Megyn Kelly: An Analysis of a FOX News Star, a Presidential Debate and a Muddle Brand of Feminism
