Holland, J orcid.org/0000-0003-4883-332X and Wright, KAM (2017) The Double Delegitimatisation of Julia Gillard: Gender, the Media, and Australian Political Culture. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63 (4). pp. 588-602. ISSN 0004-9522
Abstract
This article explores Australian media coverage of Julia Gillard's leadership. It employs a comparative discourse analysis of the gendered nature of media reporting on her sexism and misogyny speech and eventual demise. The article places these gendered framings within two contexts: that of the more general gendered expectations of the double bind facing all women leaders; and the more specific challenge to Australia's women leaders, posed by exclusivist national identity narratives. These narratives — of mateship, the ANZAC myth, and various apparently ideal-type masculinities — serve to further disassociate Australian women from positions of national leadership. Together, we argue that the twin constraints of gender expectations and exclusivist national identity narratives amounted to a double delegitimisation of Julia Gillard's leadership, on the basis of her being a woman leader, generally, and an Australian woman leader, specifically.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. Australian Journal of Politics and History © 2017 The University of Queensland and John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Australian Journal of Politics and History. The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajph.12405. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Julia Gillard; gender; politics; history; newspapers; media; discourse; narrative |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Nov 2016 12:29 |
Last Modified: | 06 Dec 2018 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ajph.12405 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:107606 |