Defining Sexism: How Partisanship and Elite Rhetoric Polarize Conceptualizations and Labeling of Gender-Based Prejudice

• In Event: Gender and Political Attitudes

Brief Overview

This undergraduate thesis aims to address how our politics are informing sexist attitudes and beliefs within the American electorate. In doing so, this thesis will analyze how partisan polarization and sexism may be connected.

Authors

• Leslie Katherine Davis, College of William and Mary

• Jaime Settle, College of William and Mary