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Disturbing Femininity

Verfasst von: Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten
in:
2013 , Heft: 2 , Band: 5 , 153-173 S.
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gender
gender equality
politics
performativity
performance
celebrity
Danish newspapers

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Einrichtung: GenderOpen | Digital
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Verfasst von: Hvenegård-Lassen, Kirsten
In:
Jahr: 2013
Heft: 2
Band: 5
ISSN: 2000-1525
Sprache: Englisch
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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.
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