{"title":"Quem cuida das crianças? A representação das mulheres do alto escalão político pelos media","authors":"Christina Holtz-Bacha","doi":"10.21878/COMPOLITICA.2013.3.2.108","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The essay reflects on the media representation commonly associates with women politicians. Starting with a critique of media coverage about some political leaders in several countries, such as Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Segolene Royal, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Hillary Clinton, the paper discusses the phenomenon of the double bind to which women are subjected in politics: if a woman presents herself as being cool, calculating and aggressive as it is expected in the political business she risks to be rejected as a virago. If she recommends herself with allegedly female traits, she will be regarded as not being viable for the serious challenges of the political business. There is no easy formula for how women should represent themselves. Since there are only few opportunities for direct contact between politicians and the electorate, it is necessary to deal with public image reported by media. Key-words: Political Communication; Election ; Gender; Representation. Resumo: O ensaio reflete sobre as representacoes mediaticas comumente associadas as mulheres na politica. A partir da critica a cobertura midiatica sobre algumas lideres politicas em diversos paises, a exemplo de Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Segolene Royal, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner e Hillary Clinton, o trabalho discute o fenomeno do duplo vinculo ao qual as mulheres estao submetidas na politica: elas estao em situacao desfavoravel na competicao politica quando assumem uma postura fria, calculada ou agressiva e lidam com hard issues, mas tambem quando se dedicam a questoes tradicionalmente vistas como femininas, soft issues, que as caracterizam como inviaveis para a administracao publica. Nao ha formula a ser reproduzida, e, uma vez que ha poucas oportunidades para um contato direto entre politicos e eleitores, ha que se lidar com a construcao da imagem publica produzida pelos media. Palavras-chave: Comunicacao Politica; Eleicoes; Genero; Representacao.","PeriodicalId":30394,"journal":{"name":"Revista Compolitica","volume":"3 1","pages":"45-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista Compolitica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21878/COMPOLITICA.2013.3.2.108","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: The essay reflects on the media representation commonly associates with women politicians. Starting with a critique of media coverage about some political leaders in several countries, such as Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Segolene Royal, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Hillary Clinton, the paper discusses the phenomenon of the double bind to which women are subjected in politics: if a woman presents herself as being cool, calculating and aggressive as it is expected in the political business she risks to be rejected as a virago. If she recommends herself with allegedly female traits, she will be regarded as not being viable for the serious challenges of the political business. There is no easy formula for how women should represent themselves. Since there are only few opportunities for direct contact between politicians and the electorate, it is necessary to deal with public image reported by media. Key-words: Political Communication; Election ; Gender; Representation. Resumo: O ensaio reflete sobre as representacoes mediaticas comumente associadas as mulheres na politica. A partir da critica a cobertura midiatica sobre algumas lideres politicas em diversos paises, a exemplo de Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Segolene Royal, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner e Hillary Clinton, o trabalho discute o fenomeno do duplo vinculo ao qual as mulheres estao submetidas na politica: elas estao em situacao desfavoravel na competicao politica quando assumem uma postura fria, calculada ou agressiva e lidam com hard issues, mas tambem quando se dedicam a questoes tradicionalmente vistas como femininas, soft issues, que as caracterizam como inviaveis para a administracao publica. Nao ha formula a ser reproduzida, e, uma vez que ha poucas oportunidades para um contato direto entre politicos e eleitores, ha que se lidar com a construcao da imagem publica produzida pelos media. Palavras-chave: Comunicacao Politica; Eleicoes; Genero; Representacao.