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Article: The Other Elites: Women, Politics, and Power in the Executive Branch.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
- Author:
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Edited by MaryAnne Borrelli and Janet M. Martin. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 265p. $55.00.
Susan J. Carroll, Rutgers University
As scholars of women and politics have gained a stronger foothold in the discipline of political science, most aspects of American politics have been examined through a gendered lens. The presidency is one of the few major areas of research to have largely escaped such scrutiny, in part because a woman has never held the nation's highest office and in part because relatively few feminist scholars have focused their research on the executive branch.
The Other Elites is the first comprehensive attempt to examine executive ...