Women of the 2016 Election: Voices, Views, and Values

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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 womens 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 womens 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.

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With more women running for office and winning, learning from those who have gone before offers some important lessons both to those running for office and those who are just starting out. Women in office do make a difference. -- Christine Todd Whitman, Author of Its My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America
This rich, captivating volume skillfully contextualizes women in politics. Each contribution provides fresh insights that remind us to pay careful attention to the role of ideology, race, media and status as they relate to womens political fortunes. The book is an excellent addition to political science, communications and womens studies classes. -- Ronnee Schreiber, Author of "Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics"
This fascinating collection of essays provides a rich overview of womens multiple and diverse contributions to U.S. presidential campaigns. The books focus on individual women with prominent roles in the 2016 election reflects an innovative approach that illustrates superbly the complicated and varied ways that gender is at play in contemporary electoral politics. -- Susan J. Carroll, Co-author of A Seat at the Table: Congresswomens Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters, Rutgers University

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Jennifer Schenk Sacco is associate professor of political science and director of the Womens and Gender Studies Program at Quinnipiac University.