A possessive investment in white heteropatriarchy? The 2016 election and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality

Strolovitch, Dara Z.; Wong, Janelle; Proctor, Andrew

doi:10.1080/21565503.2017.1310659

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“…Trump won the election through the votes cast by his largely white male base of support. While more women than men voted for Clinton, this effect was largely driven by African‐American women since a majority of white women cast votes for Trump (Junn, ; Strolovitch, Wong, & Proctor, ). Second, the masculinized campaign space signaled to women their lack of fit with political roles; Trump’s comments about the importance of “hand size” and his supporters’ rallying cries of “Trump that bitch” (referring to Hillary Clinton) (Dittmar, ) continue a long tradition of communicating to women and girls that politics is a man’s game.…”

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The Application of Social Role Theory to the Study of Gender in Politics

Schneider

Bos

2019

Political Psychology

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Social role theory provides a framework to help understand the complexity of gender in the political sphere. We demonstrate how SRT both helps to explain extant research findings and to generate future research that will help explain the complicated ways in which gender shapes U.S. politics. This article considers two broad categories of behavior: the gendered opinions and engagement of the citizenry and the gendered evaluations of political actors by elites and voters. Within each category, we propose moving beyond the male-female binary and consider the effects of gender in conjunction with other key political identities, such as race, ethnicity, age, as well as examining the effects of (dis)ability, and class. As well, our work demonstrates how masculinity encompasses the U.S. political system and serves as a backdrop in front of which gender roles shape political behavior, and role incongruity can lead to prejudice. This project lays the groundwork for future work to apply theories from psychology to a gendered analysis of U.S. politics. Through a better understanding of sex, gender, and their combined effects with race and other intersectional identities, we contribute to a broader goal of creating a more inclusive U.S. politics. bs_bs_banner Gender in the CitizenryTo consider how gender affects the opinions and participation of the citizenry, we first introduce key concepts that lay the groundwork for social role theory. As a central organizing theory, social role theory provides an explanation for how the powerful, pervasive, segregated social roles of men and women produce gender stereotypes and gendered behavior. Then, we organize the article into sections that address the main outcomes of interest we introduced above: public opinion and political participation. We conclude each section with future research.

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Section: Gender In the Citizenrymentioning

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The Application of Social Role Theory to the Study of Gender in Politics

Schneider

Bos

2019

Political Psychology

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“…Added to the feminist brief for Clinton, in 2016, were the blatantly sexist statements and behaviours of her general election opponent, Donald Trump, repeatedly denounced by the candidate and her supporters (e.g., in Michelle Obama's moving speech at the Democratic convention). Taken together, it seemed to many observers that these factors would determine Clinton's victory, with the majority of women throwing their weight behind the first woman candidate of a major party for the presidency of the United States (Strolovitch et al 2017).…”

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“…This implies that gender identities are politically plural, and that there should be no assumed set of policies that all women will interpret as woman-friendly (Orloff 2009). Women who identify with conventional roles and femininity may well find no natural alliance with feminists or the Democratic Party (Strolovitch et al 2017).…”

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“…In brief, our argument favours a better form of identity analysis -more finegrained than just gender, just race, just class -and examining the interactions among different dimensions of inequality; this entails a turn to a more robust definition of identities as multidimensional. The multidimensionality of inequality -complex inequality or intersectionality -is generally accepted (in practice if not always in name) in the study of gender and race across the social science disciplines, but has yet to be as successfully integrated into studies of electoral politics and political institutions (Hooker and Tillery 2016;Strolovitch et al 2017). And, of course, there are other components of identity to reckon with, like small-town residence and religion, but in our view these are easily accommodated to broader perspectives -and indeed should be -and ought not to distract from the more general utility of a multidimensional perspective on identity.…”

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“…6. Strolovitch et al (2017) provide an excellent review of these arguments and the associated evidence.…”

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