The discursive construction of gender in politicians' narratives

What is it about?

The paper presents some findings of qualitative research which gathered the narratives of men and women – belonging to different Italian political alignments and occupying different positions and roles – relative to their political career paths and the discourses with which they accounted for female under-representation. The analysis of the texts highlights the discursive practices, symbols, meanings and sexed images with which the symbolic gender order is created. and reproduced. A specific focus is on the gender positioning performed through the narratives and the tendency to cast women in the role of the ‘Other’ with respect to the political system.

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