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The complex visual ...
The complex visual gendering of political women in the press
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- Kroon Lundell, Åsa (author)
- Örebro universitet,Humanistiska institutionen
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- Ekström, Mats (author)
- Örebro universitet,Humanistiska institutionen
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- London : Routledge, 2008
- 2008
- English.
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In: Journalism Studies. - London : Routledge. - 1461-670X .- 1469-9699. ; 9:6, s. 891-910
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Abstract
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- In this article, we present an analysis of how gendering is “being done” in press visuals of women in politics. In short, we will argue that women professionals working within the area of politics are gendered and type-cast in more complex ways than previous research has yet shown. In a qualitative analysis of visuals from three different political scandals in Sweden involving prominent political women, we analyse the diversified ways of portraying women in visuals that do not simply reproduce the idea that the gendering of women uncritically correlates with concepts like sexualization, objectification, passivity and otherness. As on-lookers of a professional woman in politics caught in a pressing situation in a photograph, we will argue that at times we may be invited to see her as both an Other and a person with whom we can identify ourselves with. Or a woman may be positioned as an object with a focus on appearance, but not by emphasizing her femininity and sexuality but by doing exactly the reverse. We will also discuss the complexity that is related to the various contextual factors that come into play when press photographers and editors communicatively “work” at accomplishing specific gendered visual “preferred readings”.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- gendering
- visuals
- press
- journalism
- politicians
- INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS
- TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN
- Gender studies
- Genus
- SOCIAL SCIENCES
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
- Media and communication studies
- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
- medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
- medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
- genusvetenskap
- gender studies
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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