Women Leaders and Gender Stereotyping in the UK Press: A Poststructuralist Approach

by Judith Baxter

Book Overview

This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media. Despite significant career progress made by women leaders in these professions, many British newspapers continue to portray these women in stereotyped and essentialist ways: the extent to which this occurs tending to correspond with the political affiliation and target readership of the newspaper...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319643274
• ISBN13: 9783319643274
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"