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Women, Gender, and the 2004 U.S. Elections: Looking Ahead to 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2006

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The 2004 U.S. presidential election was a highly gendered contest involving major masculinized, gendered campaigns by Senator John Kerry and incumbent President George W. Bush. If Senator Kerry was “reporting for duty,” and “W [Stood] for Women,” what have been the gendered implications for women as citizens, as voters, as candidates, and as potential officeholders? As we approach the 2006 U.S. midterm elections, five scholars, expert in gender and electoral analysis, share their observations about the short- and long-term implications of the 2004 elections for women's political participation and influence. These essays complicate and enrich our understanding of women and elections, and they come to different and even competing conclusions, leading us to suspect that there is a sea change under way in the analysis of women and elections, one that may recast our understandings of gender, generation, race, and sex.

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Research Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 353
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© 2006 The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

The 2004 U.S. presidential election was a highly gendered contest involving major masculinized, gendered campaigns by Senator John Kerry and incumbent President George W. Bush. If Senator Kerry was “reporting for duty,” and “W [Stood] for Women,” what have been the gendered implications for women as citizens, as voters, as candidates, and as potential officeholders? As we approach the 2006 U.S. midterm elections, five scholars, expert in gender and electoral analysis, share their observations about the short- and long-term implications of the 2004 elections for women's political participation and influence. These essays complicate and enrich our understanding of women and elections, and they come to different and even competing conclusions, leading us to suspect that there is a sea change under way in the analysis of women and elections, one that may recast our understandings of gender, generation, race, and sex.

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Moms Who Swing, or Why the Promise of the Gender Gap Remains Unfulfilled

Susan J. Carroll, Rutgers University

Targeting [Specific Slices of] Female Voters: A Key Strategy of Democrats and Republicans Alike in 2004 … and Most Assuredly So in 2008

Susan A. MacManus, University of South Florida

Gender Pools and Puzzles: Charting a “Women's Path” to the Legislature

Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University

Intersectionality in Electoral Politics: A Mess Worth Making

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