Women political leaders and the media /
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| Author / Creator: | Campus, Donatella. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
| Description: | vii, 147 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave studies in political leadership Palgrave studies in political leadership series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9035910 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Gender and Models of Leadership
- Power: A male concept?
- The female style of leadership
- Transformational leadership
- 2. The Media and Representation of Leadership
- The mediatization and personalization of politics
- Popular culture and leadership
- New media, new leaders?
- 3. Media Coverage of Women Leaders
- Visibility: Quantity and quality of coverage of women leaders
- Taking care and cleaning up: Lights and shadows of the positive stereotypes
- Viability and the horse race: Are the media educating future female leaders?
- 4. The Double Bind
- The nature of the femininity-competence double bind
- Iron Ladies and mothers of the nation
- When women leaders are too feminine: The case of Ségolène Royal
- When women leaders are too strong: The case of Hillary Clinton
- 5. The Appearance of Power
- Women leaders and the personal factor
- The dress code of women leaders
- Power and seduction
- 6. The Family Factor
- The good wife and the good mother
- Going personal for women leaders
- Dynastic politics: When daughters and wives enter politics
- 7. Conclusion: In Search of a New Style of Political Leadership
- The crisis of traditional democratic leadership
- Time for degendering leadership
- Media as agents of transformation
- Notes
- References
- Index
