The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024

This book examines the ways in which popular culture has entertained the notion of a female U.S. presidency through portrayals in film, television, and literature dating back to the 1930s.

To date, no woman has served as Commander in Chief in the White House. This lack of precedent, however, has not deterred the continued exploration of this idea in U.S. popular culture for decades. In this book, Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman analyzes fictionalized portrayals of female U.S. Presidents across a ...