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W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
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Description for W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
Paperback. Investigates how "W" stands for women. This book contains ten feminist scholars who analyze various aspects of Bush' persona, language, and policy to show how his administration has shaped a new politics of gender. Editor(s): Ferguson, Michaele L.; Marso, Lori Jo. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 436.
Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is deeply and problematically connected to a conservative gender ideology. While it is not surprising that conservative views about gender motivate Bush’s stance on so-called “women’s issues” such as abortion, what is surprising—and what this collection demonstrates—is that a conservative gender ideology also underlies a range of policies that do not appear explicitly related to gender, most ... Read more
Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is deeply and problematically connected to a conservative gender ideology. While it is not surprising that conservative views about gender motivate Bush’s stance on so-called “women’s issues” such as abortion, what is surprising—and what this collection demonstrates—is that a conservative gender ideology also underlies a range of policies that do not appear explicitly related to gender, most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822340423
SKU
V9780822340423
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About Ferguson
Michaele L. Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Lori Jo Marso is Professor of Political Science and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Union College. She is the author of Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women.
Reviews for W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
“Full of strikingly original and meticulously theorized readings of contemporary public life, W Stands for Women is one of the most intellectually and politically exciting books that I’ve read in years.”—Catherine A. Holland, author of The Body Politic: Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination “Making lasting feminist sense of the George W. Bush presidency—long after it’s over—will ... Read more