1st Edition

Gender in the 2016 US Presidential Election Trump, Clinton, and Media Discourse

By Dustin Harp Copyright 2019
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Using a discourse analysis, Dustin Harp investigates media during the 2016 US presidential election to explore how traditional (patriarchal) and feminist ideas about gender played out during the campaign. The book illustrates how these two ideologies competed for space and struggled for discursive authority. A broad range of media texts is examined, and "gender moments," where gender became... Read more

Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender and Politics in a Mediated World Chapter 2 Hegemonic Masculinity Shapes the Discourse Chapter 3 Playing the Woman’s Card Chapter 4 Gender Expectations: Women and the Body Chapter 5 Misogyny in the World of Political Discourse Chapter 6 Shrill Nasty Woman Chapter 7 Gender, Ideology, and Political Discourse in 2016 Index

Biography

Dustin Harp is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA. Her research explores the intersections of women and media, with an interest in women and politics. She is the co-editor of Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research (2018) and author of Desperately Seeking Women Readers (2007).