Full Description
Although women constitute half of the world's population, their participation in the political sphere remains problematic. While existing research on women politicians from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada sheds light on the challenges and opportunities they face, we still have a very limited understanding of women's political participation in emerging democracies.
Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives From Nations in Transition is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been 'the usual suspects'; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through personal interviews to politically active women, thus providing the reader with a rare insight into women's agency in the political structures of emerging democracies.
Each chapter examines the complex women, politics and media dynamic in a particular nation-state, taking into consideration the specific political, historic and social context. With 23 case studies and interviews from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Russia and the former Soviet republics, this volume will be of interest to students, media scholars and policy makers from developed and emerging democracies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
Part One: Framing the message: mediated representations and journalistic practices
2. The Portrayal of Women Politicians in Israeli Popular Women's Magazines,
Einat Lachover, Sapir Academic College, Israel
3. Ambiga Sreenevasan and Malaysian Counter-Publics
Mary Griffiths and Sara Chinnasamy, University of Adelaide, Australia
4. The Girls of Parliament: A Historical Analysis of the Press Coverage of Female Politicians in Bulgaria
Elza Ibroscheva and Maria Raicheva-Stover
5. Zambian Women MPs: An Examination of Coverage by The Post and Zambia Daily Mail
Twange Kasoma, Radford University, USA
6. Media Visibility of Tunisian Women Politicians in Traditional and New Media: Obstacles to Visibility and Media Coverage Strategies
Maryam Ben Salem and Atidel Majbri, Center of Arab Women for Training and Research, Tunisia
7. Understanding the Gender Dynamics of Current-affairs-based Shows in Pakistani Television Industry
Munira Cheema, University of Sussex, UK
8. Between Two Democratic Ideals: Gendering in the Russian Culture of Political Lournalism
Liudmila Voronova, Södertörn University, Sweden
9. Becoming Less Gendered: A Comparison of (Inter)National Press Coverage of First Female Government Heads Who Win Again at the Polls
Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno, Loyola University Maryland, USA, and Ingrid Bachmann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Part Two: Managing the message: self-representations
10. 'Cameroon's Female Obama': Deconstructing the Kah Walla Phenomenon in the Context of the 2011 Presidential Elections in Cameroon
Teke Ngomba, Public Spheres and Comparative Media Systems Analysis, Cameroon
11. The Mother of Brazil: Gender Roles, Campaign Strategy, and the Election of Brazil's First Female President
Pedro G. dos Santos, Luther College, USA and Farida Jalalzai, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA
12. The Visual Framing of Romanian Women Politicians in Personal Campaign Blogs during the 2012 Romanian Parliamentary Elections
Camelia Cmeciu, Danubius University of Gala?i, Romania, and Monica Patru?, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania
13. Gender, Politics and the Albanian Media: A Women Parliamentarians' Account
Sonila Danaj, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Jonila Godole, University of Tirana, Albania
Part Three: Navigating the cultural space: race, class and beauty
14. Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile: A Moving Portrait
Claudia Bucciferro, Gonzaga University, USA
15. Virgin Venuses: Beauty and Purity for 'Public' Women in Venezuela
Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Drury University, USA
16. Ultra-Feminine Women of Power: Beauty and the State in Argentina
Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Drury University, USA
17. Yulia Tymoshenko's Two Bodies
Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Institute for Human Sciences, Austria
Concluding remarks
Index
