dc.rights.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode | none |
dc.contributor.author | Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten | none |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-31T10:29:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-31T10:29:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | none |
dc.identifier.issn | 2000-1525 | none |
dc.identifier.uri | http://genderopen.de/25595/1045 | |
dc.description.abstract | When Helle Thorning-Schmidt in 2011 became the first female Prime Minister in Denmark, this “victory for the women” was praised in highly celebratory tones in Danish newspapers. The celebration involved a paradoxical representation of gender as simultaneously irrelevant to politics and – when it comes to femininity – in need of management. Based on an analysis of the newspaper coverage of the election, I argue that highlighting gender (in)equality as either an important political issue or as something that conditions the possibilities of taking up a position as politician was evaluated as a performative speech act, i.e. an act that creates the trouble it names. Ruling out gender equality as relevant was, however, continually interrupted by comments on how Thorning-Schmidt and other female politicians perform gender in ways that fit or do not fit with “doing politician”. These com-ments tended to concern the styling of bodies and behaviour and followed well known – or sticky – gendered scripts. | none |
dc.language.iso | eng | none |
dc.subject.ddc | 306 Kultur und Institutionen | none |
dc.subject.other | gender | none |
dc.subject.other | gender equality | none |
dc.subject.other | politics | none |
dc.subject.other | performativity | none |
dc.subject.other | performance | none |
dc.subject.other | celebrity | none |
dc.subject.other | Danish newspapers | none |
dc.title | Disturbing Femininity | none |
dc.type | article | |
dc.source.pageinfo | 153-173 | none |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | none |
dc.source.journal | Culture unbound : Journal of current cultural research | none |
dc.source.issue | 2 | none |
dc.source.volume | 5 | none |
local.type | Zeitschriftenaufsatz | |
dc.identifier.pi | 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135153 | none |