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It's an exciting time to be a woman in the United States: the first "Madam Speaker" presides over Congress, her leadership reported on by the first female major network news anchor, who's also covering female heads of state in countries as diverse as Liberia, Germany, and Argentina, as well as Hillary Clinton's run for the White House. So it's also an exciting time to be studying gender, politics, and culture. Both of these books consider whether or not Americans are seriously ready for a woman to assume the position of (arguably) the most powerful person (formerly man) in the world. Or will media representation and misrepresentation stir up an always underlying public opinion that female candidates are "Unnatural, Incapable, Unviable," as Falk (communications, Johns Hopkins Univ.) investigates in Women for President...Log In or Sign Up to Read More