Juliette Holder

Juliette Holder is a Ph.D. student at Texas Woman's University studying Rhetoric, as well as Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies. Her research areas include feminist rhetorics, popular culture, and feminist identity formation.
Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?
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Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?

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 / 11 October 2022

Ten years after Parks and Recreation’s campaign-focused season 4, real-world female political candidates still liken themselves to Leslie Knope. Is that the kind of candidate 2022 needs?