Women for president: media bias in nine campaigns
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Main Author: Falk, Erika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana University of Illinois Press c2010
Edition:2nd ed
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Why worry about the press? -- - Unnatural, incapable, and unviable -- - Baking muffins and bombing countries -- - High-heeled boots and violet suits -- - Do newspapers give equal coverage to men and women presidential candidates? -- - Issues, biography, and chaff -- - Is American ready? -- - Eighteen million cracks but still intact
"Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of nine women who ran for president through 2008 Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, Carol Moseley Braun, and Hillary Clinton - Erika Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates." "The press portrays female candidates as unviable, unnatural, and incompetent, and often ignores or belittles women instead of reporting their ideas and intent. This thorough comparison of men's and women's campaigns reveals a worrisome trend of sexism in press coverage - a trend that still persists today."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (206 p.)
ISBN:0252076915
0252096053
9780252076916
9780252096051

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