Navigating Gendered Terrain: Stereotypes and Strategy in Political Campaigns (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781439911495)

From the presidential level down, men and women who run for political office confront different electoral realities. In her probing study, Navigating Gendered Terrain, Kelly Dittmar investigates how gender influences the campaign strategy and behavior of candidates today. Concurrently, she shows how candidates' strategic and tactical decisions can influence the gendered nature of campaign institutions.

Navigating Gendered Terrain addresses how gender is used to shape how campaigns are waged by influencing insider perceptions of and decisions about effective campaign messages, images, and tactics within party and political contexts. Dittmar uses survey information and interviews with candidates, political consultants, and other campaign professionals to reveal how gender-informed advertising, websites, and overall presentation to voters respond to stereotypes and perceptions of female and male candidates.

She closes her book by offering a feminist interpretation of women as candidates and explaining how the unintended outcomes of political campaigns reinforce prevailing ideas about gender and candidacy.

Author: Kelly Dittmar
ISBN-10: 1439911495
ISBN-13: 9781439911495
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2015
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.79h x 6.95w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2015