About this Cambridge Elements series 

Gender has reshaped the political landscape in recent years. Headlines discuss women leaders’ approach to the pandemic, civil wars distinct effects on men and women, and how masculinity shapes support for radical right parties. This growing interest in gender and politics is not limited to ongoing political crises. Rather, with more women seeking office, a growing gender gap in partisanship, and women’s increased political engagement, the role of gender and politics has become impossible to ignore.
 
Elements in Gender and Politics combines the best of deep theorizing with careful empirical scholarship to reveal the ways politics influences the lives of women and men and how gender shapes the political world. Monographs showcase original scholarship situated within the rich body of existing research, thus introducing readers to the broader topic and sharing newly-created knowledge.

Many titles focus on traditional areas of gender and politics research, including campaigns and elections, representation, and policymaking. Others set the agenda for new areas of scholarship, recognizing diversity among women, engaging intersectionality and difference, and moving beyond a binary understanding of gender—acknowledging gender as a fluid, constructed concept that structures power dynamics within societies—to address pressing questions surrounding LGBTQ+ politics, men, and masculinities.

Series Editors 
Tiffany D. Barnes is Professor of Political Science at University of Kentucky. She is author of Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective (Rowman & Littlefield, Fourth edition, 2020). Her first book, Gendering Legislative Behavior: Institutional Constraints and Collaboration (Cambridge University Press 2016) won the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of APSA. Her research appears in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Politics & Gender. Her research was supported by the National Science Foundation and recognized with the Emerging Scholar Award (Legislative Studies Section of APSA), and the Early Career Award from the Midwest Women’s Caucus. She was a Research Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame and the Stone Center’s Greenleaf Scholar-In-Residence, Tulane University. She served as Co-Editor for Legislative Studies Quarterly, president of the Midwest Women’s Caucus, and founding director of the EGEN network. 

Diana Z. O’Brien is Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching focuses on the causes and consequences of women's political representation in established democracies — including Western Europe and the United States — and across the globe. She has published articles on these topics in top political science journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Politics & Gender. Her research has been awarded best paper prizes from the Midwest Political Science Association and the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, associate editor at Politics & Gender, president of the Midwest Women’s Caucus, and was a founding member of the EGEN network. 

Contact the editors 
Tiffany D. Barnes: [email protected]

Diana Z. O’Brien: [email protected] 

Areas of Interest 

• Gender and Politics in Times of Crisis.
• Gender, War, and Peace.
• Gender Inequality.
• Women at the Intersection.
• Gendered Political Attitudes and Engagement.
• Gender and Elections.
• Gendered Politics, Policymaking, and Public Policy
• Gender and Leadership.
• Gender and Political Communication
• Politics, Men, and Masculinities.