Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2016
Published In
Oxford Handbook Of American Political Development
Abstract
The study of gender in American political development (APD) challenges the efficacy for advancing women’s political inclusion of a liberal tradition valorizing principles of individual equality and positing a separation of the family and the state. Masked are ways in which gender roles and the family are integral to governance and state-building. Gender is both a dependent and an independent variable in APD. Shaped by institutions and policies of the state, it also shapes institutions and policies that promote women’s political citizenship and expand the state’s capacity for social provision—by asserting not only liberal claims of women’s equality with men, but also by invoking maternalist claims based on women’s difference from men, thereby challenging and altering relationships between public and private spheres.
Keywords
gender, liberalism, maternalism, citizenship, equality, political incorporation, rights, state-building, suffrage, women
Published By
Oxford University Press
Editor(s)
Richard Valelly, S. Mettler, And R. Lieberman
Recommended Citation
E. McDonagh and Carol Nackenoff.
(2016).
"Gender And The American State".
Oxford Handbook Of American Political Development.
Volume 3,
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697915.013.010
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-poli-sci/585
Comments
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