"Tracing notions of ""women's places"" in society: An analysis of selected press coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton"
My research explores contemporary renderings of women's places in society through a critical, poststructuralist, feminist reading of selected press coverage (culled primarily from the New York Times, Washington Post, and New York Post) of Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) during the 1992 American Presidential campaign. The texts produced about and around HRC from January 1992 to the inauguration in January 1993, focused on a variety of issues that fit under the rubric of 'women's place in society,' including the family, working women, egalitarian versus traditional relationships, women in politics, and marriage. Questions about the appropriate places for women linked up with a variety of dualistic categories that then contoured and limited understandings of these issues. HRC functioned for these particular media as a site for exploring such issues, and for discussing, challenging, constructing, and reinforcing understandings of women's place in society. My work attempts to answer the question: how did a public discourse on women's places in society play itself out around HRC?
Biography, Journalism, Women's Studies, Sociology, Social Structure and Development
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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