New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America with Women's Values by Charles Derber, Katherine Adam

Introduction: Democrats Have Values, Too     1
Mars versus Venus     15
Naming Feminized and Masculinized Values     18
America's Masculinized History     24
Puritans, Founding Fathers, Frontiersmen, and Robber Barons     25
Manifest Destiny, Conquest, and Empire     35
The Rise of the Feminized Majority     41
The 1960s, the 1980s Backlash, and the Current Feminizing Forces     41
Corporatization and Economic Insecurity     46
Failed Wars, Declining Hegemony, and Feminization     48
U.S. Hegemonic Decline and the Feminization of America     52
Social Movements and the Feminization of America     56
Women's Values and a New America     60
The Gender Gap     61
Toward a Feminized Majority     65
Sex, Class, and Values     76
The Origins of Feminized Values     77
Why Women's Values Are Not Capitalist Values     79
Feminized Values and Class Politics     83
The Feminized Path to Race and Class Values     87
Feminized or Feminist?     89
Gender, Class, and the Feminized Majority     92
Values Voters, Self-Interest, and a Feminized Democratic Strategy     95
How Democrats Can Win     99
Toward Feminized Populism     104
Three Steps for Victory in 2008 and Beyond     105
Beyond Corporate Democrats     110
Corporate Regimes and Gendered Values     111
A Brief History of the Democratic Party in Corporate and Noncorporate U.S. Regimes     112
The Third Corporate Regime and the New Corporatized Democrats     115
The Dean Campaign and the Beginnings of a Feminized Democratic Strategy     119
Democrats, Moms, and the New Politics of Feminized Values     124
Attracting Men     127
Men, Alpha-Male Symbols, and a Feminized Democratic Platform     128
Militarism: The Largest Chasm Between Masculinized and Feminized Voters     133
Edwards, Obama, Kucinich, and Feminized Male Courage     138
John Edwards, Barack Obama, and Dennis Kucinich: Feminized Males?     140
Hillary Clinton and the Hope of a Feminized Future     157
Village Clinton     160
Hegemonic Clinton     164
Corporate Clinton     168
Conclusion: The Victory Party     175
Notes     182
Index     198
About the Authors     202