ABSTRACT
The chapters in this volume address a variety of meaty issues concerning the intersections of social capital, politics, and gender. Other chapters ask questions such as: do men and women differ in their amounts or types of social capital? Do they differ in how they do politics? How does social capital draw them into politics? This chapter moves in a related, though somewhat distinctive direction by positing that one central form of social capital, social networks, are the fundamental sites of informal politics, of the interpersonal influences that help shape all our views.
