'Messing With Our Templates': Feminism and Postfeminism in News Coverage of Sarah Palin

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Abstract

Because feminism is rarely explicitly defined in news media, this paper describes the ways in which feminism is implicitly defined in news coverage of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Using textual analysis, this paper shows the ways in which Palin and the news media work together to define feminism in postfeminist language, even while Palin attempts to break the career/family dichotomy of postfeminist discourse.

Author

• Dana Schowalter, University of South Florida