Women's involvement in national politics is a relatively new phenomenon. This book is unique in the privileged and central position it gives to women parliamentarians' own testimonies and experiences in relation to their media relationships and strategies. The book explores the relationships which women politicians have with their local, regional, and national news media; examines the gap between what women politicians say they are doing when they implement a media strategy and what actually happens in terms of how they are portrayed and represented by journalists, and constructs an explanatory framework to interpret the changing relations between women politicians and the news media.
INTRODUCTION. WOMEN AND POLITICS. HERSTORY. Gender and Political Theory. Forms of Political Engagement. Issues of Representation. Affirmative Actions and Challenging Behaviour. PRACTICAL POLITICS AND THE GENDER TURN. En-gendering Style Politics. Women in a Man's Mad World. Gender Impact Assessment. Style and Substance. Women and Difference: En-gendering Change. FRAMED: WOMEN, POLITICS, AND NEWS DISCOURSE. The Changing Face of Political News. The Political Interview and the Cult of Personality. Gender of the Agenda: Framing Women. Does This Make Her Bottom Look Big? The Gendered Discourse of Politics. ACTING UP: WOMEN AND MEDIA NEGOTIATION. Women-on-Women Relations: Sister Journalists? Proactive Strategies with Journalists-Cultivating Strength. WOMEN, POLITICS, AND NEWS IN AN ELECTION CLIMATE. Moving to a Different Drum-Gender and Campaign Themes. Politics as Biology, Gender as Agency. Political Advertising and the Power of Persuasion, Gender Gap Politics. Media, Voters and Impact. Media, Gender and Effect. CONCLUSIONS. Appendixes. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
