ronnie schreiber discusses her research into how conservative women leaders negotiate the tension betweenal gender roles and the desire to engage poetically. she looks specifically at 2000 a vice presidential candidates are pale and and minnesota commerce women and 2012 presidential candidate michele bachmann. posted in november by the university of california berkeley, this is one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> there we go. ok. thank you so much for coming. i want to thank the berkeley center for right-wing studies and the cosponsors, the graduate .chool of journalism i also want to thank john mccain. why would i want to thank john mccain? in 2008,f you know, john mccain surprise the united states by nominating alaska governor sarah palin to be his running mate in the presidential election. and i remember that moment. i was at a little science conference and my first book had just come out on conservative women. press.academic i'm sure a few people thought it might be interesting. then i saw sarah palin on the screen on national television and i thought john mccain is promoting my re

what we'll do now is deidre english will have a response and a bit of a conversation with ronny schreiber. and for the last 15 minutes we'll open up to the floor for questions. christine will have a microphone, and people will be able to ask questions of the panel. >> thank you very much. i'm deidre english and i cannot claim to the same level of neutrality and objectivity that professor schreiber has brought o this work. i've written critically about conservative women in the past. and, i've also gone as a journalist with great interest ith alaska, to sarah palin's hometown, in something of the same spirit to try to understand her religion, her neighbors, her background, and i really appreciate your scholarship, and to preciate the effort made try to understand, to seek to understand and then to be understood. i think it's a good principle, and i appreciate the respects that you brought for your subjects. in your own open-mindedness, pointing out their importance for social science as well as in politics. i think you have established if there were any doubt, being mere mouthpieces for me

ronnie with schreiber. she talks about conservative women leaders. 2008 vice presidential candidate sarah palin, and michele bachmann. the former editor and uc berkeley university professor also critiques the work. this is one hour, 15 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [applause] >> there we go. ok. thank you so much for coming. i want to thank the berkeley center for right-wing studies and the cosponsors, the graduate school of journalism. i also want to thank john mccain. why would i want to thank john mccain? as most of you know, in 2008, john mccain surprised the united states by nominating alaska governor sarah palin to be his running mate in the presidential election. and i remember that moment. i was at a little science conference and my first book had just come out on conservative women. it was academic press. i'm sure a few people thought it might be interesting. then i saw sarah palin on the screen on national

now is our respondent, deirdre english, will have a response and a bit of a conversation with ronnie schreiber. and for the last 15 minutes we will open up to the floor for questions. christine trust will have a microphone and will be able to ask questions of the panel. >> thank you very much. i'm deirdre english. i cannot claim to the same level of neutrality and objectivity that professor schrieber brought to this work. i have debated in the past, and not entirely successfully. she was very good. and i have written critically about conservative women in the past. but i have also gone as a journalist with great interest to alaska, to sarah palin's hometown, with something in the spirit that you brought to your work, to try to understand her religion, her neighbors, and her background. and i really appreciate your scholarship, and i appreciate the effort made to try to understand, to see to understand and then to be understood. i think it is a good principle. i appreciate the respect you brought for your subjects and your own open-mindedness and you're pointing out their importance for social