Gender and Political Communication in America Rhetoric, Representation, and Display

by Edwards, Janis L.; Achter, Paul; Atkins-Sayre, Wendy; Bart, Heather Aldridge; Bergman, Teresa; Burns, Lisa M.; Edwards, Janis L.; Falk, Erika; Farrar, Margaret E.; Hamilton, Heidi; Kahl, Mary L.; Keith, Shereé; Klien, Stephen A.; Muir, Janette Kenner; Man

• ISBN13: 9780739131084
• ISBN10: 0739131087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

At a time when presidential campaigns are shaped to appeal to women voters, when masculinity constructs impinge on wartime leaders, and when the United States appears to move toward the possibility of a woman president, it is vital that communication scholarship addresses the issue of gender and politics in a comprehensive manner. Gender and Political Communication in America: Rhetoric, Representation, and Display takes on this challenge as it investigates, from a rhetorical and critical standpoint, the intersection and mutual influences of gender and political communication as they are realized in the nation's political discourse. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Janis L. Edwards is associate professor of communication studies at the University of Alabama.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Politics as Gendered Space	p. xi
Navigating Gender Complexities: Hillary and Bill Clinton as a Political Team	p. 1
Women Who Spoke for Themselves: Working Women, Suffrage, and the Construction of Women's Rhetorical Style	p. 23
Crafting a Feminine Presidency: Elizabeth Dole's 1999 Presidential Campaign	p. 41
The Diatribe of Ann Coulter: Gendered Style, Conservative Ideology, and the Public Sphere	p. 63
Madame Secretary: Is the Female Voice a Difference That Makes a Difference in National Security Discourse?	p. 87
Racing Jesse Jackson: Leadership, Masculinity, and the Black Presidency	p. 107
Governor Mom: Jane Swift and the Body Politic	p. 129
Beyond Lesbian Identity: Exploring the Use of Narrative in Kathy Webb's Successful Campaign for the Arkansas State Legislature	p. 149
Traversing the Wife-Candidate Double Bind: Feminine Display in the Senate Campaign Films of Hillary Clinton Elizabeth Dole	p. 165
Political Symbolism in Chisolm '72: Unbought and Unbossed	p. 187
Press Framing of First Ladies' Political Activism	p. 201
Gender Bias and Maintenance: Press Coverage of Senator Hillary Clinton's Announcement to Seek the White House	p. 219
Visualizing Presidential Imperatives: Masculinity as an Interpretive Frame in Editorial Cartoons, 1988-2008	p. 233
Gendered Bodies: Considerning the Sexual in Political Communication	p. 251
An Epistolary Epilogue: Learning from Sarah Palin's Vice Presidential Campaign	p. 267
Selected Bibliography	p. 279
Index	p. 301
Contributors	p. 307
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