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Sex, Lies and Politics
Donna Smith
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Description for Sex, Lies and Politics
Hardcover. Provides an analysis of the changing representation of gay politicians in UK newspapers. This title reveals insights about representation and the construction of identity through its focus on sexuality, politicians and the media, with the changing line between the private and public an essential concept. Num Pages: 224 pages, illus. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 482.
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the changing representation of gay politicians in UK newspapers. Focusing on the 1950s onwards, a time when the press became more personal and gay politicians/politicians involved in gay scandals came to the forefront of media attention, the text uses case-studies and socio-political analysis to develop a frame of representation which shows how a move from intolerance to tolerance to partial recognition of homosexuality has impacted upon the acceptability of homosexuality in 'heterosexual public space', with this then affecting the representation of gay politicians in the press. What was private has now become public, ... Read more
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the changing representation of gay politicians in UK newspapers. Focusing on the 1950s onwards, a time when the press became more personal and gay politicians/politicians involved in gay scandals came to the forefront of media attention, the text uses case-studies and socio-political analysis to develop a frame of representation which shows how a move from intolerance to tolerance to partial recognition of homosexuality has impacted upon the acceptability of homosexuality in 'heterosexual public space', with this then affecting the representation of gay politicians in the press. What was private has now become public, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194567
SKU
V9781845194567
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Ref
99-1
About Donna Smith
Donna Smith has extensive experience in social scientific and political research. She is an Associate Lecturer in Politics and Social Sciences at the Open University, where she also works in faculty management. She completed her Ph.D. at the Open University in 2009, after working in Westminster politics. Her BA (Hons) and MA were studied at the University of East Anglia. ... Read more
Reviews for Sex, Lies and Politics
Donna Smith has written an important and engaging original contribution to scholarship on the theory and practice of sexual politics. The concept she develops of a 'frame of representation' both advances her argument and provides other scholars in Politics, Social History, and Media Studies with an important conceptual tool to take forward. Her analysis of the shifting boundary between public ... Read more