| ISBN |
9780733341922 |
| Shelf Location |
320.994 BAIR |
| Author |
Baird, Julia Woodlands, author |
| Title |
Media tarts : how the Australian press media frames female politicians / Julia Baird. |
| Cover title |
Media tarts : |
| Edition |
Revised and updated edition. |
| Production/Publication data |
Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2021. |
| ©2021. |
| Physical Description |
400 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Carrier Type |
volume |
| General Notes |
First published in Australia in 2004 by Scribe Publication.s. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographic references. |
| Summary Note |
A powerful insight into how the media treats female politicians - now revised and updated with a new foreword by Annabel Crabb - from one of our foremost journalists and political commentators, Julia Baird. 'History is crucial. We need to know that treating women as decorations, subordinates and playthings, even and sometimes especially in our houses of power, is not new. We know that from the moment women walked into parliament and took up space alongside men, they have been treated as objects ... When men were featured often in the press, they were rising stars. When women were featured often in the press, they were media tarts'. Julia Baird's seminal work, Media Tarts, was originally published in 2004. Based on a series of extensive interviews, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system, exploring the part played by the press in their downfall. Almost two decades later, it is evident how little has changed. Now revisited and updated with a new foreword, Media Tarts is essential reading from one of our foremost journalists and political commentators, providing a powerful, sobering and incisive insight into how deep the currents of misogyny run, and how the media continues to treat female politicians. If we want to understand what is happening today, and avoid the endless repeating of the same story, we need to reckon with our past. |
| Subject |
Women in politics -- Australia |
| Women in mass media -- Australia |
| Politicians -- Australia -- Public opinion -- |
| Politics, Practical -- Australia |
| Women in the civil service -- Australia |
| Women -- Political activity -- Australia |
| Subject (Geographic) |
Australia -- Politics and government -- -- 20th century -- |
| Added Entry -- Personal Name |
Crabb, Annabel, writer of foreword |
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