Browsing by Author "Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Grace"

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    Gender Protests and Transgressive Tactics
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Disi Pavlic, Rodolfo; Paredes, Valentina; Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Grace
    This chapter focuses on “gender protests,” defined as social conflicts motivated by equality issues concerning men and women as well as sexual majorities and minorities. Feminist protests resurged massively in May 2018 in what has been referred to as a “third wave” of Chilean feminism (Fina Gonzalez and Figueroa Vidal in Revista Punto Género 11:51–72, 2019; Miranda and Roque in Economía y Política 8:65–93, 2021; Reyes-Housholder and Roque in Revista de Ciencia Política 39:191–216, 2019).
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    Gender, corruption, and presidential politics
    (Edgar Elgar Publishing, 2024) Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Grace
    This chapter argues that when corruption issues become salient, the role of gender stereotypes in presidential politics is Janus-faced. Associations between women in presidential politics and moral integrity in such contexts may facilitate women’s presidential elections. However, these widespread ideas can also create higher standards, limiting opportunities for women to attain and maintain this power. The chapter illustrates these arguments by drawing on scholarship on women presidential candidates and women presidents in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The chapter points out that research relies on the assumption that candidate traits matter for how women obtain, maintain, and gain presidential power, both in terms of election victories and approval ratings. Future scholarship may seek to evaluate how much gender stereotypes concerning moral integrity matter to women’s presidential victories in contexts of corruption compared to election fundamentals, such as macroeconomic performance.