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From lobbyists such as Jack Abramoff, to corporate executives, like Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, recent scandals dealing with politics and government have focused only on men at the top. But do these high-profile men accurately represent the gendered make up of corporate-government in the United States? In this first in-depth look at the changing face of corporate lobbying, Denise Benoit shows how women who have historically worked mostly in policy areas relating to ""women's issues"" such as welfare, family, and health have become increasingly influential as corporate lobbyists, specializing in what used to be considered ""masculine"" policy, such as taxes and defense. Benoit finds that this new crop of female lobbyists mobilize both masculinity and femininity in ways that create and maintain trusting, open, and strong relations with those in government, and at the same time help corporations to save and earn billions of dollars. While the media focuses on the dubious behaviors of men at the top of business and government, this book shows that female corporate lobbyists are indeed one of the best kept secrets in Washington.  

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Just when we might think we have learned everything we possibly could about corporate lobbying due to all the recent scandals and exposes, we now have the pleasant surprise of finding out that corporations have yet another important and previously invisible way to influence government, through the growing number women lobbyists who serve as their eyes, ears, and persuaders in some of the most important policy arenas in Washington. - G. William Domhoff, author of Who Rules America? Power, Politics, and Social Change

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Denise Benoit is an associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Geneseo.

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