Despite decades of women’s participation in politics and the increasing number of LGBTQ individuals who are seeking and winning political office, the gender i

Gender is one of the primary fault lines running through contemporary American politics. The political agenda has become deeply polarized by such issues as affi

Providing a systematic analysis of electoral coverage in newspapers since 1918, this book demonstrates that for women to be effectively represented in the polit

This is the first book to analyse the complexities of women's political participation on a cross-national scale and from a feminist perspective. Surveying forty

The book argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, the candidate's sex plays a minimal role in the majority of US elections.