Women for president : media bias in nine campaigns by Falk, Erika

Women for president : media bias in nine campaigns
by Falk, Erika

(#39926Q0)

Paperback University of Illinois Press, 2010

Price: USD 27.00

Description: 206 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Dewey: 324.973008; Audience: Adult

Product Overview
From Follett

Includes bibliographical references and index.;Why worry about the press? -- Unnatural, incapable, and unviable -- Baking muffins and bombing countries -- High-heeled boots and violet suits -- Do newspapers give equal coverage to men and women presidential candidates? -- Issues, biography, and chaff -- Is American ready? -- Eighteen million cracks but still intact. Examines the campaigns of nine women who ran for president of the United States from 1872 to 2008, focusing on allegations of media bias towards female politicians who aspire to the highest office in the country.

From the Publisher

Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's formidable 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of nine women who ran for president through 2008--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, Carol Moseley Braun, and Hillary Clinton--Erika Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates. The press portrays female candidates as unviable, unnatural, and incompetent, and often ignores or belittles women instead of reporting their ideas and intent. This thorough comparison of men's and women's campaigns reveals a worrisome trend of sexism in press coverage--a trend that still persists today.

Product Details
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication Date: January 12, 2010
  • Format: Paperback
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Dewey: 324.973008
  • Classifications: Nonfiction
  • Description: 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • ISBN-10: 0-252-07691-5
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07691-6
  • LCCN: 2009-014548
  • Follett Number: 39926Q0
  • Audience: Adult