Michaele L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Associate in the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. She is the author of Sharing Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-editor with Lori J. Marso of W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender (Duke University Press, 2007), as well as articles in feminist and democratic theory. She is currently working on an article called "What is Neoliberalism?" and on a book entitled Taming the Shrew: The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism in America. She is co-chair with Steven Johnston of Foundations of Political Theory for the 2014 American Political Science Association meetings, and she serves on the editorial board of Philosophy and Rhetoric.