Virginia Sapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 283027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Sapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SAPIRO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 886 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Integrating Ethics, Methods, and the Dynamics of Power in Political Science Fieldwork
The articles in this symposium underscore at least three common points about understanding and combatting sexual harassment in the context of social science fieldwork
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759–1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the first major social theorists to examine gender‐based oppression and inequality. Her work, based in early liberal theoretical traditions, did not just focus on the status of and relations between women and men, but placed gender relations in a framework of understanding various bases of inequality and oppression. She developed a political psychology through which we can understand the relationship of …
Report on the 2017 Apsa Survey on Sexual Harassment at Annual Meetings
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Sexual Harassment: Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Power
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Apsa Active and Award Committees
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Campaigning for Congress in the “9/11” Era: Considerations of Gender and Party in Response to an Exogenous Shock
This article takes advantage of a naturally occurring experiment to examine how congressional campaign advertising responds to dramatic events. Integrating the literatures on issue ownership and gender stereotypes, we ask how campaign rhetoric and substance changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, paying particular attention to how those responses were mediated by party and gender expectations. Using data from the Wisconsin Advertising Pr…
Gender, Context, and Television Advertising: A Comprehensive Analysis of 2000 and 2002 House Races
Are men and women portrayed differently in campaigns? Much scholarship and commentary expects that this is so, yet previous studies provide ambiguous evidence on the extent of gender difference.The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in television advertisements in congressional races in 2000 and 2002 with data that allow them to take into account the frequency of airings, the sponsorship of the advertisements, partisan…
Not Your Parents' Political Socialization: Introduction for a New Generation
The field of political socialization is often stereotyped in terms of some of the earliest work in the field and is neglected outside certain areas of American political behavior. However, the continuing and vibrant stream of work in political socialization holds potential for addressing many critical issues across American, comparative, and international politics. This article discusses three themes: the construction of a more genuinely comparat…
Gender Equality in the Public Mind
Most conceptual research on equality revolves around theoretical texts or legal theory and decisions, thus reflecting the thought of legal, political, or cultural elites. But in a democratic polity, we must attend to the political thought not just of politicos and academics, but ordinary citizens as well. In terms of its political significance, “What does equality mean” requires answering the question: what does equality mean to the mass public? …
Gender equality in the public mind
Diane Blair
at the age of 61. She left family, thousands of students, and friends all the way from Arkansas to the White House. Her loss is felt keenly by a large, admiring number of political scientists to whom she was always the best of colleagues and the most delightful of friends
Spectacular Politics, Dramatic Interpretations: Multiple Meanings in the Thomas/Hill Hearings
Symbolic politics theories suggest that political events take on multiple meanings and that societal groups respond to a given event on the basis of different interpretations. We explore this claim through a quantitative case study of popular responses to a single political spectacle, the Senate hearings that investigated Anita Hill's claims against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Our findings suggest that Hill and Thomas supporters respon…
The American National Election Studies: A Progress Report
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Committees of the American Political Science Association
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The Variable Gender Basis of Electoral Politics: Gender and Context in the 1992 US Election
Despite considerable research, the theory of gender difference in electoral behaviour remains underdeveloped, especially in accounting for variation across elections. We focus on two aspects requiring particular attention: (1) accounts of gender difference, especially distinguishing between positional explanations, in which gender differences stem from men and women taking the same considerations into account, but having different positions on th…
Oh, Ye of Little Faith: Philip Tetlock's Road to Hell
The truth of this is clear. For if it is asked why some witches will not confess the truth under even the greatest tortures, while others readily confess their crimes when they are questioned, . . . the reason is as follows. It may truly be said that, when it is not due to a Divine impulse conveyed through a holy Angel that a witch is made to confess the truth and abandon the spell of silence, then it is due to the devil whether she preserves sil…
Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement, by Anne N. Costain
Journal Article Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement, by Anne N. Costain Get access Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement by Anne N. Costain. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 188 pp. $28.00. Virginia Sapiro Virginia Sapiro University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politi…
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, by Theda Skocpol
The political uses of symbolic women: An essay in honor of Murray Edelman
Gender, Feminist Consciousness, and War
In the post-World War II era, American women have been consistently less militaristic and more opposed to war than American men. Theorists, both feminist and not, have attributed such differences to gender itself, maternalism, and feminism. Drawing on the American National Election Study 1991 Pilot Study, we explore these hypotheses and discover no support for the maternalist explanation, some evidence in favor of the feminist accounting, and sub…
A vindication of political virtue: The political theory of Mary Wollstonecraft
"Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what is considered to be the first major work of feminist political theory: A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Much has been written about this work, and about Wollstonecraft as the intellectual pioneer of feminism, but the actual substance and coherence of her political thought have been virtually ignored. Virginia Sapiro here provides the first full-length treatment of Wollstonecraft's…
Feminism: A Generation Later
Investigations by political psychologists reveal some of the changes in public opinion, gender consciousness, and gender ideology that have taken place since the beginning of the women's movement. There is more general acceptance of equality between the sexes, but even young people still show some adherence to traditional divisions of roles, and traditional gender ideology still plays a part in maintaining inequality. There is still widespread su…
Sex differences in political participation: Processes of change in fourteen nations
Reflections on Reflections: Personal Ruminations
No abstract available for this article
Citizenship without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity
Not Your Parents' Political Socialization: Introduction for a New Generation
The field of political socialization is often stereotyped in terms of some of the earliest work in the field and is neglected outside certain areas of American political behavior. However, the continuing and vibrant stream of work in political socialization holds potential for addressing many critical issues across American, comparative, and international politics. This article discusses three themes: the construction of a more genuinely comparat…
Gender, Feminist Consciousness, and War
In the post-World War II era, American women have been consistently less militaristic and more opposed to war than American men. Theorists, both feminist and not, have attributed such differences to gender itself, maternalism, and feminism. Drawing on the American National Election Study 1991 Pilot Study, we explore these hypotheses and discover no support for the maternalist explanation, some evidence in favor of the feminist accounting, and sub…
Research Frontier Essay: When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women
Recent years have witnessed an increasing demand by women for political representation of women. This demand points the way toward a number of important problems for political research, many of which remain unsolved primarily because of the segregation of women's studies from the dominant concerns of political science. This discussion focuses on the problem of group interests and representation, drawing on and suggesting further research on publi…
If U.S. Senator Baker Were A Woman: An Experimental Study of Candidate Images
About five percent of American political office holders are women. On this indicator of women's status, the United States approximates the worldwide norm (Putnam, 1976). A central research question for those who study women's political roles is why, given the lack of legal or obvious structural barriers to recruitment of female elites, are women still so underrepresented among political officials. The literature on women and politics offers a num…
The Variable Gender Basis of Electoral Politics: Gender and Context in the 1992 US Election
Despite considerable research, the theory of gender difference in electoral behaviour remains underdeveloped, especially in accounting for variation across elections. We focus on two aspects requiring particular attention: (1) accounts of gender difference, especially distinguishing between positional explanations, in which gender differences stem from men and women taking the same considerations into account, but having different positions on th…
Private Costs of Public Commitments or Public Costs of Private Commitments? Family Roles versus Political Ambition
Research on political ambition and recruitment has yet to consider seriously the role of private life and especially the family in a potential candidate's calculation of the costs and benefits of running for office. One reason is that men, who constitute the vast majority of candidates, are not usually identified as experiencing conflict between public and private roles. Using the Center for Political Studies (CPS) 1972 Convention Delegate Study,…
Gender, Context, and Television Advertising: A Comprehensive Analysis of 2000 and 2002 House Races
Are men and women portrayed differently in campaigns? Much scholarship and commentary expects that this is so, yet previous studies provide ambiguous evidence on the extent of gender difference.The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in television advertisements in congressional races in 2000 and 2002 with data that allow them to take into account the frequency of airings, the sponsorship of the advertisements, partisan…
Women, Citizenship, and Nationality: Immigration and Naturalization Policies in the United States
The Gender Basis of American Social Policy
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, womenthousands of them -became increasingly organized and active in the attempt to promote the general welfare, especially by helping the most vulnerable members of society. As individual leaders and as group participants they were instrumental in organizing and nationalizing movements for public health (mental and physical), poor relief, penal and other institutional reform, education for the pr…
The political uses of symbolic women: An essay in honor of Murray Edelman
New pride and old prejudice: Political ambition and role orientations among female partisan elites
Feminism: A Generation Later
Investigations by political psychologists reveal some of the changes in public opinion, gender consciousness, and gender ideology that have taken place since the beginning of the women's movement. There is more general acceptance of equality between the sexes, but even young people still show some adherence to traditional divisions of roles, and traditional gender ideology still plays a part in maintaining inequality. There is still widespread su…
Spectacular Politics, Dramatic Interpretations: Multiple Meanings in the Thomas/Hill Hearings
Symbolic politics theories suggest that political events take on multiple meanings and that societal groups respond to a given event on the basis of different interpretations. We explore this claim through a quantitative case study of popular responses to a single political spectacle, the Senate hearings that investigated Anita Hill's claims against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Our findings suggest that Hill and Thomas supporters respon…
Gender Equality in the Public Mind
Most conceptual research on equality revolves around theoretical texts or legal theory and decisions, thus reflecting the thought of legal, political, or cultural elites. But in a democratic polity, we must attend to the political thought not just of politicos and academics, but ordinary citizens as well. In terms of its political significance, “What does equality mean” requires answering the question: what does equality mean to the mass public? …
Sex and Games: On Oppression and Rationality
Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry’, was penned by Jeremy Bentham in 1825, but could as appropriately appear in most contemporary treatments of social choice and rationality. Political economists still use the felicific calculus; they search for ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’ by exploring means and consequences of aggregating individuals' preferences to form soci…
Sexual Harassment: Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Power
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New Pride and Old Prejudice: Political Ambition and Role Orientations Among Female Partisan Elites
The determinants of women's political orientations are explored in terms of two perspectives: ambition and gender role and their interrelationship. A sample of 1336 Democratic and Republican delegates to the 1972 national nominating conventions was used to compare the political expectations and aspirations of men and women. Women were found tohave less interest in holding public officebut equalled men in aspiring to party careers. Party as well a…
News from the Front: Intersex and Intergenerational Conflict over the Status of Women
C ONSCIOUSNESS and conflict are essential prerequisites of change in the status of women. As Harriet Martineau wrote one hundred forty years ago, All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex, and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some, but cold iron to others), of feudal pre…
Campaigning for Congress in the “9/11” Era: Considerations of Gender and Party in Response to an Exogenous Shock
This article takes advantage of a naturally occurring experiment to examine how congressional campaign advertising responds to dramatic events. Integrating the literatures on issue ownership and gender stereotypes, we ask how campaign rhetoric and substance changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, paying particular attention to how those responses were mediated by party and gender expectations. Using data from the Wisconsin Advertising Pr…
Oh, Ye of Little Faith: Philip Tetlock's Road to Hell
The truth of this is clear. For if it is asked why some witches will not confess the truth under even the greatest tortures, while others readily confess their crimes when they are questioned, . . . the reason is as follows. It may truly be said that, when it is not due to a Divine impulse conveyed through a holy Angel that a witch is made to confess the truth and abandon the spell of silence, then it is due to the devil whether she preserves sil…
Report on the 2017 Apsa Survey on Sexual Harassment at Annual Meetings
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Gender equality in the public mind
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, by Theda Skocpol
Reflections on reflections: Personal ruminations
Participation by Women in Annual Meetings, 1970-78
In the late sixties, women in the United States became sensitized to their second-class status and organized to raise their consciousness and change their conditions. At the same time women in academia began to organize within their disciplines to address the problems they faced there. Political science was no exception; in 1969, when women constituted 5 percent of the membership of the APSA and 8 percent of all political science faculty teaching…
Participation by Women in Annual Meetings, 1970-78
In the late sixties, women in the United States became sensitized to their second-class status and organized to raise their consciousness and change their conditions. At the same time women in academia began to organize within their disciplines to address the problems they faced there. Political science was no exception; in 1969, when women constituted 5 percent of the membership of the APSA and 8 percent of all political science faculty teaching…
Sex and Games: On Oppression and Rationality
Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry’, was penned by Jeremy Bentham in 1825, but could as appropriately appear in most contemporary treatments of social choice and rationality. Political economists still use the felicific calculus; they search for ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’ by exploring means and consequences of aggregating individuals' preferences to form soci…
New Pride and Old Prejudice: Political Ambition and Role Orientations Among Female Partisan Elites
The determinants of women's political orientations are explored in terms of two perspectives: ambition and gender role and their interrelationship. A sample of 1336 Democratic and Republican delegates to the 1972 national nominating conventions was used to compare the political expectations and aspirations of men and women. Women were found tohave less interest in holding public officebut equalled men in aspiring to party careers. Party as well a…
New pride and old prejudice: Political ambition and role orientations among female partisan elites
News from the Front: Intersex and Intergenerational Conflict over the Status of Women
C ONSCIOUSNESS and conflict are essential prerequisites of change in the status of women. As Harriet Martineau wrote one hundred forty years ago, All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex, and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some, but cold iron to others), of feudal pre…
If U.S. Senator Baker Were A Woman: An Experimental Study of Candidate Images
About five percent of American political office holders are women. On this indicator of women's status, the United States approximates the worldwide norm (Putnam, 1976). A central research question for those who study women's political roles is why, given the lack of legal or obvious structural barriers to recruitment of female elites, are women still so underrepresented among political officials. The literature on women and politics offers a num…
Research Frontier Essay: When Are Interests Interesting? The Problem of Political Representation of Women
Recent years have witnessed an increasing demand by women for political representation of women. This demand points the way toward a number of important problems for political research, many of which remain unsolved primarily because of the segregation of women's studies from the dominant concerns of political science. This discussion focuses on the problem of group interests and representation, drawing on and suggesting further research on publi…
Private Costs of Public Commitments or Public Costs of Private Commitments? Family Roles versus Political Ambition
Research on political ambition and recruitment has yet to consider seriously the role of private life and especially the family in a potential candidate's calculation of the costs and benefits of running for office. One reason is that men, who constitute the vast majority of candidates, are not usually identified as experiencing conflict between public and private roles. Using the Center for Political Studies (CPS) 1972 Convention Delegate Study,…
The political integration of women: Roles, Socialisation, and Politics
Women, Citizenship, and Nationality: Immigration and Naturalization Policies in the United States
Women, Biology, and Public Policy
Introduction - Virginia Sapiro PART ONE: THEMES AND THEORIES Biology and Women's Policy - Ruth Bleier A View from the Biological Sciences Biology and Women's Policy - Virginia Sapiro A View from the Social Sciences PART TWO: BIOSOCIAL POLICY QUESTIONS THROUGH THE LIFE COURSE Male and Female Hormones - Marianne H Whatley Misinterpretations of Biology in School Health and Sex Education Fetal Personhood and Women's Policy - Janet Gallagher Childbirt…
The Gender Basis of American Social Policy
During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, womenthousands of them -became increasingly organized and active in the attempt to promote the general welfare, especially by helping the most vulnerable members of society. As individual leaders and as group participants they were instrumental in organizing and nationalizing movements for public health (mental and physical), poor relief, penal and other institutional reform, education for the pr…
Reflections on Reflections: Personal Ruminations
No abstract available for this article
Citizenship without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity
Women in American Society
American Women and Political Participation: The Impacts of Work, Generation, and Feminism, by Karen Beckwith
Journal Article American Women and Political Participation: The Impacts of Work, Generation, and Feminism, by Karen Beckwith Get access American Women and Political Participation: The Impacts of Work, Generation, and Feminism by Karen Beckwith. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1986. 185 pp. $29.95. Virginia Sapiro Virginia Sapiro University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Sc…
Reflections on reflections: Personal ruminations
Sex differences in political participation: Processes of change in fourteen nations
Feminism: A Generation Later
Investigations by political psychologists reveal some of the changes in public opinion, gender consciousness, and gender ideology that have taken place since the beginning of the women's movement. There is more general acceptance of equality between the sexes, but even young people still show some adherence to traditional divisions of roles, and traditional gender ideology still plays a part in maintaining inequality. There is still widespread su…
A vindication of political virtue: The political theory of Mary Wollstonecraft
"Nearly two hundred years ago, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what is considered to be the first major work of feminist political theory: A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Much has been written about this work, and about Wollstonecraft as the intellectual pioneer of feminism, but the actual substance and coherence of her political thought have been virtually ignored. Virginia Sapiro here provides the first full-length treatment of Wollstonecraft's…
Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement, by Anne N. Costain
Journal Article Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement, by Anne N. Costain Get access Inviting Women's Rebellion: A Political Process Interpretation of the Women's Movement by Anne N. Costain. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. 188 pp. $28.00. Virginia Sapiro Virginia Sapiro University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politi…
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States, by Theda Skocpol
The political uses of symbolic women: An essay in honor of Murray Edelman
Gender, Feminist Consciousness, and War
In the post-World War II era, American women have been consistently less militaristic and more opposed to war than American men. Theorists, both feminist and not, have attributed such differences to gender itself, maternalism, and feminism. Drawing on the American National Election Study 1991 Pilot Study, we explore these hypotheses and discover no support for the maternalist explanation, some evidence in favor of the feminist accounting, and sub…
Oh, Ye of Little Faith: Philip Tetlock's Road to Hell
The truth of this is clear. For if it is asked why some witches will not confess the truth under even the greatest tortures, while others readily confess their crimes when they are questioned, . . . the reason is as follows. It may truly be said that, when it is not due to a Divine impulse conveyed through a holy Angel that a witch is made to confess the truth and abandon the spell of silence, then it is due to the devil whether she preserves sil…
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