Gender is one of the primary fault lines running through contemporary American politics. The political agenda has become deeply polarized by such issues as affirmative action, abortion rights, and welfare reform. In short, gender politics, once regarded as marginal, has emerged as one of the core dividing lines in identifying politicians, parties, issues, and voters in America. Not surprising, the way media covers gender politics has long been a matter of contention. The issue at the heart of this book is whether, as critics suggest, media coverage of women in America reinforces rather than challenges the dominant culture, thereby contributing towards women's marginalization in public life. This collection of original essays by twenty-one top academics and journalists is the first book to systematically examine the impact of the media on women's power in America. It focuses on how the role of American women as citizens, political leaders, and feminist activists has been influenced by the media, for better or worse, in recent decades. Using multimethod approaches involving surveys, content analysis, focus groups, interviews, and personal experience, the authors analyze the role of women as journalists, the impact of campaign coverage, images of women in power, and coverage of women's movement and feminist policy issues. Women, Media, and Politics will be an important resource for students interested in contemporary political and social debate.
"Great textbook. I have used it for several semesters."--Pat Washington, San Diego State University
"Women, Media, and Politics is an ideal reader for the interdisciplinary study of women and American media and politics. I recommend the text for use in gender studies, communication, and political science courses, and I look forward to using it."--Jean M. Ward, Lewis and Clark College
"This is an outstanding collection of readings that are current and on an important area of public policy. They should prove to be a catalyst for classroom discussion."--Dr. Robert Langran, Villanova University
"A realistic appraisal of what women candidates face as they meet the press which are more likely to focus on one woman doing something outlandish than a lot of women doing something historic."--Anita Perez Ferguson, President of the National Women's Political Caucus
"This latest collection edited by Norris includes works by some of the finest media and gender scholars in the US....Everett Ladd's clearly written and intelligently argued chapter on how the media talk about the gender gap is especially commendable. In the final section, Andrew Kohut and Kimberly Parker have a strong piece on gender and talk-back radio....The good articles are so good that students and scholars alike will want this collection for their own." -- hoice
About the Author
Pippa Norris is a lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government where she also serves as Associate Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Product Details
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (September 5, 1996)
PIPPA NORRIS is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has also served recently as the Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York.
Her research compares gender politics, democracy, elections and public opinion, and political communications in many countries worldwide. A well-known public speaker and prolific author, she has published more than three-dozen books.
This includes almost a dozen volumes for Cambridge University Press: A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies (2000, winner of the 2006 Doris A. Graber award for the best book in political communications), Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet Worldwide (2001), Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide (2002) and Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the Globe (with Ronald Inglehart, 2003), Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (2004), Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (with Ronald Inglehart, 2004, winner of the Virginia Hodgkinson prize from the Independent Sector), Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market (2005), and Driving Democracy: Do power-sharing institutions work? (CUP 2008). Her most recent research concerns a new book on Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing World (CUP 2009, with Ronald Inglehart).
Other authored or coauthored books include On Message (1999), Electoral Change Since 1945 (1997), Political Recruitment (1995), British By-elections (1990), Politics and Sexual Equality (1986). Edited books include Britain Votes 2005 (co-edited with Christopher Wlezien, 2005), Framing Terrorism (2003), Britain Votes 2001 (2001), Critical Citizens (1999), Critical Elections (1999), The Politics of News (1998, 2nd edition 2007), Elections and Voting Behaviour (1998), Britain Votes 1997 (1997), Women, Media and Politics (1997), Politics and the Press (1997), Passages to Power (1997), Comparing Democracies (1996, 2nd ed. 2002, 3rd edition 2009), Women in Politics (1996), Different Voices, Different Lives (1994), Gender and Party Politics (1993), British Elections & Parties Yearbook (1991, 1992, 1993). Recently edited reports include Making Democracy Deliver: Governance for Human Development (for UNDP) and Public Sentinel: News Media and the Governance Agenda (World Bank 2009).
She has served as an expert consultant for many international bodies including the UN, UNESCO, NDI, the Council of Europe, International IDEA, the World Bank, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the UK Electoral Commission. Her work has been published in more than a dozen languages (French, German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Pashtu, Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Korean, and Japanese). Journals articles include those in the British Journal for Political Science, Political Studies, Political Communication, the European Journal of Political Research, the International Political Science Review, Electoral Studies and Legislative Studies, and she co-founded The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. She has served on executive bodies for the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Political Science Association of the UK (PSA), and the British Politics Group of APSA. She was President of the Political Communications section of APSA and of the Women and Politics Research Group of APSA, and Co-Founding Chair of the Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion Group (EPOP) of the PSA. She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of East Anglia, the University of Oslo, the University of Cape Town, Otago University, and the Australian National University. Prior to joining Harvard in 1992, she taught at Edinburgh University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Philosophy from Warwick University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE). She teaches STM 103: Good Governance and Democratization (MPA/ID) and API413 Challenges of Democratization at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Gov-20 Introduction to Comparative Politics in the Government Department. Full details and publications can be found at: www.pippanorris.com and she can be contacted at Pippa_Norris@Harvard.edu.
First Sentence:
Journalism, like many other professions in the United States, has been dominated by men for much of this century. Read the first pageKey Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civil rights frame, televised political advertisements, talk radio listeners, talk radio audience, women candidates, sponsoring candidate, women journalists, trait rating, candidate images, male candidates, sex stereotypes, der gap, campaign techniques, women politicians
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York Times, United States, Washington Post, Eleanor Roosevelt, Year of the Woman, Los Angeles Times, Hillary Clinton, Times Mirror Center, Dolley Madison, Rush Limbaugh, White House, Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Betty Friedan, Margaret Thatcher, Financial Times, Kim Campbell, Mary Robinson, Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jacqueline Kennedy, Kathleen Brown, Pete Wilson, Anita Hill, Barbara Boxer
New! Books on Related Topics |
Concordance
|
Text StatsBrowse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
