The President's Cabinet : : Gender, Power, and Representation / / MaryAnne Borrelli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Borrelli, MaryAnne,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)

Are female office holders most acceptable when they most resemble men? Why has a woman never led the Department of the Treasury, or Defense, or Veterans Affairs? Reflecting on these and similar questions, MaryAnne Borrelli explores women's selection for—and exclusion from—U.S. cabinet positions. Borrelli considers how the rhetoric employed in the selection and confirmation of secretaries-designate establishes gendered expectations for the performance of nominees once they are in office. Analyzing the career paths of secretaries appointed from the 1930s through the first year of the George W. Bush administration, she demonstrates how gender shapes political judgments—by presidents, senators, and the nominees themselves—to reflect consistently masculine ideas about who should rule and how power should be exercised in the USA

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Linking Presidency Research and Gender Studies -- 2 Cabinet Nominations: Presidents, Power, Process -- 3 The Secretaries-Designate -- 4 Media Coverage of the Secretaries-Designate -- 5 Cabinet Confirmations: Evaluation and Ideology -- 6 Conclusion: Understanding Representation -- Appendix: "Diversity" Secretaries-Designate -- References -- Index -- About the Book