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Gender and Politics over Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2007

Gretchen Ritter
Gretchen Ritter
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The University of Texas at Austin
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What can be learned from the broad sweep of history about gender and politics? Are there ways to study gender politics from a more historical perspective that differ from the methods and approaches typically taken by scholars focused on the contemporary political record? Finally, does attentiveness to gender politics over time challenge any of our basic understandings or presumptions about gender politics today, and does it lead us to new questions and research agendas? I begin by exploring the contribution that scholarship within the field of American political development (APD) can make to the study of gender politics over time. The essay then turns to conceptualizing gender, a concept that is defined in a wide variety of ways across the humanities and social sciences. The third section applies some of the conceptual approaches described in the first two parts of this essay to an analysis of three cases in American political history. Finally, I conclude with a call for the inclusion of gender more broadly in the study of politics.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 386 - 397
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2007

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