Gender and politics in Brazilian journalism

This paper analyses representations of women in brazilian politics based on a large sample of brazilian daily television news and weekly news magazines. We understand that, besides the challenges taken by women to become candidates and run for public offices, they face specific difficulties to get t...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Miguel, Luís Felipe, Biroli, Flávia
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/4412
Acesso em linha:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/4412
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Gender
politics
journalism
Journalism
Gênero
política
jornalismo
Jornalismo
Descrição
Resumo:This paper analyses representations of women in brazilian politics based on a large sample of brazilian daily television news and weekly news magazines. We understand that, besides the challenges taken by women to become candidates and run for public offices, they face specific difficulties to get to central positions in the political field. Gender stereotypes remain, limiting women’s political action and its visibility in the news, in a process in which one of these terms feeds back the other. In other words, the scope that is considered “proper” for women in politics is also one that weekly impels their carriers and has less visibility in political news.