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Mothers and Others : The Role of Parenthood in Politics, Paperback / softback Book

Mothers and Others : The Role of Parenthood in Politics Paperback / softback

Edited by Melanee Thomas, Amanda Bittner

Paperback / softback

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When women in politics interact with reporters, opponents, and constituents, they are forced to confront their parental status.

If they have children, they are questioned about their competence in both their public and private lives.

If they don’t, they face criticism for not understanding or relating to key policy domains.

This “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” conundrum raises difficult questions about the intersection of gender, parental status, and politics. Mothers and Others examines key areas of citizen engagement with the political system – political careers, the media, and political behaviour – to argue that being a parent is a gendered political identity that influences how, why, and to what extent women (and men) engage with politics.

The first major comparative analysis of the role of parenthood in politics, Mothers and Others makes important observations about what we know and what we still need to find out.

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