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Orlanda Siow

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‘Are you tough enough?’Performing gender in the UK leadership debates 2015

Författare

  • Emily Harmer
  • Heather Savigny
  • Orly Siow

Summary, in English

Leaders’ debates have become a feature of contemporary election campaigning. While an historical feature of the US landscape, in the United Kingdom, they are a more recent phenomenon. The second UK 2015 general election leadership debate comprised seven candidates, of which three were women. Using qualitative thematic analysis and adopting the notion that gender is ‘performed’, we explore three features of coverage of the debate. First, the ways in which the debate itself was constructed as a masculine activity through a series of highly gendered metaphors; second, how newspaper frames reinforced gendered notions of masculinity and femininity in respect of political leadership; and third, how the success of women in the debates was constructed as the emasculation of their male rivals. Crucially, we focus not just on the ‘feminisation’ of women in the political arena, but also on the ways in which masculinity is posited as the criterion for the evaluation of politicians of all genders.

Publiceringsår

2017-10

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

960-975

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Media, Culture and Society

Volym

39

Issue

7

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • gender
  • politics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1460-3675