In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers
This thesis is written within a master´s program in Gender studies, with media studies as a major. It offers a view of feminism, postfeminist media culture and gendered politics. In recent years and decades increasing pressure has been applied to looks and appearance in the media. The print media co...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Other/Unknown Material |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Lunds universitet/Graduate School
2009
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1398851 |
id |
ftulundlupsp:oai:lup-student-papers.lub.lu.se:1398851 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftulundlupsp:oai:lup-student-papers.lub.lu.se:1398851 2023-07-30T04:04:24+02:00 In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers Jóhannesdóttir, Gréta Bergrún 2009 application/pdf http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1398851 eng eng Lunds universitet/Graduate School Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1398851 postfeminism gender politicians media feminism equality Social Sciences H2 2009 ftulundlupsp 2023-07-11T20:08:04Z This thesis is written within a master´s program in Gender studies, with media studies as a major. It offers a view of feminism, postfeminist media culture and gendered politics. In recent years and decades increasing pressure has been applied to looks and appearance in the media. The print media constantly publish images of celebrities and there is a certain preference for thin and beautiful bodies. Postfeminism that appeared in the last decades of the 20th century works as a resistance against the values of the second wave feminism in which women’s liberation was highly important. The ‘make-up paradigm’ has increased pressure on women and female politicians are no exception from that. The research focus is set on Iceland which has high gender equality standards. Newspaper photographs from two of the biggest newspapers are analyzed, focusing on female and male politicians in today’s political sphere. Other/Unknown Material Iceland Lund University Publications Student Papers (LUP-SP) |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Lund University Publications Student Papers (LUP-SP) |
op_collection_id |
ftulundlupsp |
language |
English |
topic |
postfeminism gender politicians media feminism equality Social Sciences |
spellingShingle |
postfeminism gender politicians media feminism equality Social Sciences Jóhannesdóttir, Gréta Bergrún In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers |
topic_facet |
postfeminism gender politicians media feminism equality Social Sciences |
description |
This thesis is written within a master´s program in Gender studies, with media studies as a major. It offers a view of feminism, postfeminist media culture and gendered politics. In recent years and decades increasing pressure has been applied to looks and appearance in the media. The print media constantly publish images of celebrities and there is a certain preference for thin and beautiful bodies. Postfeminism that appeared in the last decades of the 20th century works as a resistance against the values of the second wave feminism in which women’s liberation was highly important. The ‘make-up paradigm’ has increased pressure on women and female politicians are no exception from that. The research focus is set on Iceland which has high gender equality standards. Newspaper photographs from two of the biggest newspapers are analyzed, focusing on female and male politicians in today’s political sphere. |
format |
Other/Unknown Material |
author |
Jóhannesdóttir, Gréta Bergrún |
author_facet |
Jóhannesdóttir, Gréta Bergrún |
author_sort |
Jóhannesdóttir, Gréta Bergrún |
title |
In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers |
title_short |
In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers |
title_full |
In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers |
title_fullStr |
In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers |
title_full_unstemmed |
In the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in Icelandic news papers |
title_sort |
in the battlefield of politics - representation of female and male politicians in icelandic news papers |
publisher |
Lunds universitet/Graduate School |
publishDate |
2009 |
url |
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1398851 |
genre |
Iceland |
genre_facet |
Iceland |
op_relation |
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/1398851 |
_version_ |
1772815826633621504 |