This text focuses specifically on three interrelated sets of questions with respect to gender, politics and communication: How do serious and popular media alike represent male and female politicians, how do they frame their politics and how can these representations and frames be explained? What is the role of mainstream and movement media for the women's movement, how are feminist issues covered in the media, and what kinds of media-related activities do women's movements undertake? How are the social and political concerns of ordinary women voiced in the media - in talkshows in particular - and how does this different popular platform interact with mainstream and feminist politics? The first section of the book is about how women active in national politics are represented in the media. The second section deals with communicative practices and successes and failures of feminist movements in different parts of the world. The final section deals with the talkshow, an analysis of which raises new and problematic issues about the mediazation of feminist concerns.
Gender, Politics and Communication - an Introduction, Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Liesbet van Zoonen; Representing Hilary Rodham Clinton - Gender, Meaning and News Media, Mary Ellen Brown and Darlaine Gardetto; Women in the House - Media Representations of British Politicians, Karen Ross and Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi; Constructed Masculinities in American Presidential Campaigns - the Case of 1992, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen; Broken Hearts, Broken Dreams? Politicians and Their Families in Popular Culture, Liesbet van Zoonen; News as a Feminist Resource? A Case Study of the Media Strategies and Representations of the National Organization for Women, 1966-1980, Bernadette Barker-Plummer; Women's Movements, Public Sphere and the Media, Analyzing Publicist Practices, Leonor Camauer; Covering Women in the Indian Press - a Brahmanical Cultural Paradigm, Sania Bathla; Women's Political Webs - Global Electronic Networks, Jana Kramer and Cheris Kramarae; US Talkshows, Feminism and the Discourse of Addition, Elayne Rapping; ""Should I Maybe Perform Striptease?"" Gendered Representations of Race and Multiculturalism in American and Dutch Talk Shows, Andra Leurdijk; Private Talk in Public - the Case of Finland, Minna Aslama; Women, Talk Radio and the Public Sphere(s) in the United States, Limor Peer.
