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Women for president : media bias in eight campaigns / Erika Falk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.Description: 171 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780252033117 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252033116 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252075110 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780252075117 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1391.U5 F35 2008
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Contents:
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 America ready?
Summary: While women have been elected to the highest offices in countries such as England, Germany, and India, the idea that a woman could be president of the United States provokes ridicule. When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 bid for president she was the Democratic front-runner--yet she received less coverage than Barack Obama, who trailed her in the polls. Such a disparity is indicative of 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 eight women who ran for president through 2004--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, and Carol Moseley Braun--author Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates.--From publisher description.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HQ1391.U5F35 2008 1 Available 33710001131544

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 America ready?

While women have been elected to the highest offices in countries such as England, Germany, and India, the idea that a woman could be president of the United States provokes ridicule. When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 bid for president she was the Democratic front-runner--yet she received less coverage than Barack Obama, who trailed her in the polls. Such a disparity is indicative of 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 eight women who ran for president through 2004--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, and Carol Moseley Braun--author Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates.--From publisher description.