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Subject:

CFP: Women, Power and the Media

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Anna Gruszczynska <[log in to unmask]>

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Anna Gruszczynska <[log in to unmask]>

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Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:50:37 +0100

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Women, Power and the Media

Aston University, Birmingham
Saturday 15th - 16th September 2007

Call for Papers

Women are increasingly gaining access to positions of political power.
Recent evidence of this is displayed among other facts by the appointment
of a female head of state in Chile, Germany, Jamaica, Liberia and South
Korea. In France and in the US, election campaigns are currently being
fought which raises the prospect of the first female presidency. The
increasing presence of women as political leaders challenges traditional
social conventions that, until recently, have been based on a gender-based
division of roles and have constructed political leadership as a male
responsibility. Femininity and power have been commonly seen as
incompatible. This raises the question of whether the growing prominence of
women in political leadership roles in any national context is matched by
the social reception of female leaders and how the public react to and
reconcile femininity and power.

This process can be examined by using the methods of historical,
sociological and psychological analysis. A complementary perspective is
provided by looking at the language used to name, portray and qualify women
in the public forum. In so doing, it is hoped to explore asymmetries that
exist with respect to femininity and power and to demonstrate how these are
linguistically constructed in the public domains. The media are a
particularly fruitful domain of study for such investigations, as they
shape and are shaped by received social conventions.

The main aim of this conference is to bring together studies assessing the
(a)symmetrical treatment of female political leaders in the media. The
intention is to establish the extent to which gender bias marks political
leadership. We particularly welcome discourse-based studies that may look
at the way leaders are named, discussed and qualified in a monolingual or
contrastive perspective. We invite contributions from discourse analysts,
sociolinguists, translation scholars, and semiologists. Papers from
philosophy, social sciences as well as literary, film and cultural studies
will also be considered.

Abstracts in English of no more than one page including references will
specify which leader is considered, for what particular period, which
corpus is used, what parameters are looked at, and the extent of
asymmetrical treatment of the considered leaders. They should be sent by
email no later than May 15th 2007 to Pierre Larrivée
[[log in to unmask]].

The organisers will seek to publish a selection of the papers presented.



Calendar:

Deadline for abstracts                        15th May 2007
Acceptance Notifications                        15th June 2007
Conference                                        15th September 2007


Organisation Committee
Dr Sylvia Jaworska
Dr Pierre Larrivée

Scientific Committee
Dr Urszula Clark
Dr Angela Kershaw
Dr Pam Moores
Dr Raquel Medina
Dr Christina Schaeffner
Prof Anne Stevens

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