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W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender

W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender

Ferguson, Michaele L.
Marso, Lori Jo

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United States PoliticsWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 082234064X
ISBN13: 9780822340645
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 29 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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 notably foreign and domestic policies associated with the post-9/11 security state. Any assessment of the lasting consequences of the Bush presidency requires an understanding of the gender conservatism at its core.

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