Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders

Appleby, R

Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders

Appleby, R

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Publisher:: Routledge
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Citation:: The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021, pp. 465-478
Issue Date:: 2021-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Appleby, R https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4491-347X
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-12T06:30:19Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-12T06:30:19Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, 2021, pp. 465-478
dc.identifier.isbn	9781138200265
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150110
dc.description.abstract	This chapter discusses the discursive construction of Australia’s first (and so far, only) female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. The chapter demonstrates how intertwined discourses that circulated in the media and the political domain constructed Gillard as a particular type of gendered and sexualised person. First, Gillard was faced with the challenges of a gendered ‘double bind’, by which female leaders are expected to demonstrate qualities stereotypically associated with masculinity, and at the same time to display qualities stereotypically associated with femininity. Second, Gillard faced sexualised abuse in politics and the media which worked to represent her as an ‘unintelligible being’. Third, in acts of strategic essentialism, Gillard condemned the misogyny she endured, repositioning herself as a coherent political force and marking the re-emergence of feminism in Australian politics.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Routledge
dc.relation.ispartof	The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4324/9781315514857-37
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title	Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
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This chapter discusses the discursive construction of Australia’s first (and so far, only) female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. The chapter demonstrates how intertwined discourses that circulated in the media and the political domain constructed Gillard as a particular type of gendered and sexualised person. First, Gillard was faced with the challenges of a gendered ‘double bind’, by which female leaders are expected to demonstrate qualities stereotypically associated with masculinity, and at the same time to display qualities stereotypically associated with femininity. Second, Gillard faced sexualised abuse in politics and the media which worked to represent her as an ‘unintelligible being’. Third, in acts of strategic essentialism, Gillard condemned the misogyny she endured, repositioning herself as a coherent political force and marking the re-emergence of feminism in Australian politics.

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