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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.

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Why Do Voters Want Women Candidates to Be Like Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope?

Juliette Holder / 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?

Juliette Holder

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