Book: Gender Revolution
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Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge 2023)
Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life (Routledge 2023)
Gender Revolution carefully examines the profound transformations happening in both public and private arenas of gender relations. It also draws critical attention to the simultaneous and potent challenges that have risen in response.
The authors look to large-scale phenomena in this contemporary study and address how electoral politics and the #MeToo movement are reshaping everyday life. This gender revolution has led to a culture in which women, and increasing numbers of men, refuse to accept traditional gender norms and gender inequalities. People of all genders no longer tolerate abuses of power in politics or in their interpersonal relationships. Despite vigorous resistance, women are seizing power and refusing to back down, in ways both large and small. The authors note on the one hand that people of all genders in support of these transformations are voting for progressive candidates, engaging on social media, and making their interpersonal relationships more equal. On the other hand, they document considerable backlash and contestation, as some people are resisting these changes and creating adversarial gender divisions. Probing across these issues, the book develops an analysis of gendered social and cultural change that reveals how movement ideas diffuse into broader culture.
What people are saying about Gender Revolution...
What people are saying about Gender Revolution...
“This book offers a breath of fresh air for anyone who is pessimistic about the future of women’s rights in the USA. The rich data the authors present demonstrate that there has been, and continues to be, ongoing, albeit uneven, revolutionary changes in attitudes towards gender equality and against sexual violence. It should be read by gender scholars, political analysts, and all others who are concerned about the future of gender justice in this country."
—Nancy A. Naples, University of Connecticut.
"This innovative and insightful multi-method study . . . illuminates the dynamic interdependence of macro cultural change and micro-level psychological processes. Aronson and Fleming document in fascinating detail how politicians’ self-presentations in . . . elections exhibited both gender traditional and innovative elements, echoed by focus group members’ reactions to candidates. Personal narratives of the meaning of sexual consent likewise show that while the gender revolution is moving forward, it remains incomplete."
–Jeylan Mortimer, University of Minnesota
“Gender Revolution’s incisive analysis portrays both the power and the limitations of the #MeToo movement. While views about gender equality have changed dramatically, much is still contested. Aronson and Fleming’s detailed research helps us understand how a social movement can bring about gendered cultural change in everyday life. While there are ‘bumps’ along the way, this book convinces me we are experiencing a gender cultural revolution.”
—Holly McCammon, Vanderbilt University
"Aronson and Fleming, drawing on a unique combination of data, establish where we are today in politics and everyday culture with the long-sought goal of gender equality, as well as with continuing gender divisions. An important and timely read for anyone interested in how past protests and movements shape the present and influence the future."
–Jo Reger, Oakland University
New Book Network, Book of the Day podcast discussing the book "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" with Dr. Pamela Aronson
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