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Orlanda Siow

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Trump, Clinton, and the gendering of newspaper discourse about the 2016 US presidential election debates

Författare

  • Orlanda Siow
  • Emily Harmer
  • Heather Savigny

Summary, in English

Electoral politics remains a much-gendered sphere, dominated by men political actors and masculine behaviors. Media coverage of politics has often reinforced gendered norms. This article uses qualitative thematic analysis of three U.S. newspapers’ coverage of the 2016 presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to explore how the mediated construction of political leaders is gendered. We identify four clear themes in news coverage: performing masculine leadership, debate as violence, emotionality, and transgression. Our findings suggest that media coverage repeatedly framed political debate in masculinist terms, framed the debate using violent rhetoric, focused on the emotional performances of the candidates, and positioned the candidates as insiders or outsiders depending on gender and political experience.

Publiceringsår

2021-01-02

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

81-101

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Women's Studies in Communication

Volym

44

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • gender
  • politics
  • communication

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0749-1409