Linda Trimble
Biographic Data
| ID | 174623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Trimble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Trimble |
| SIGNATURE | TRIMBLE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5017-3896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Getting straight to the source: Who evaluates the leadership skills of premiers in Canada and Australia
Journalists have the power to shape the public’s perception of new premiers. They also share that power with the sources they interview. Sourcing is therefore important when making claims about the news media’s role in reproducing gender biases in representations of political leaders. We examine the question of sourcing through an analysis of newspaper coverage of 22 newly elected women and men subnational government leaders in Australia and Cana…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada
Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more n…
Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership
Gender, Competitiveness, and Candidate Visibility in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests
Are women politicians who mount competitive campaigns for high political office as visible and prominent in news coverage of their candidacies as their male competitors? Few studies have systematically or longitudinally investigated the relationship between candidate gender, competitiveness, and media visibility during election or party leadership campaigns. Moreover, studies of media visibility tend to focus exclusively on the presence of candid…
Political battlefield: Aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests
Our study analyzed aggressive figures of speech used by the Globe and Mail to describe the personas, performances, and prospects of women and men leadership candidates for the (Progressive) Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, 1993, and 2004. We codified four distinct forms of power communicated by the aggressive metaphors—power over, power to, power with, and power as—to investigate what these battleground metaphors communicate about gender and…
Julia Gillard and the Gender Wars
The Australian news media used the metaphor of the gender war(s) to describe Julia Gillard's political strategies and speech acts in the final nine months of her term as that nation's first woman prime minister. In particular, the metaphor was mobilized in response to Gillard's October 9, 2012, parliamentary speech on sexism and misogyny. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the gender wars allegory as it was applied to Gillard by three Aust…
Politicizing Bodies: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Racism in News Representations of Canadian Political Party Leadership Candidates
Based on the argument that bodies are politicized when their gendered, sexualized, and racialized features are woven into mediated political discourses, our study investigates newspaper coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. A systematic intersectional analysis of reporting on 30 candidates who competed in 13 leadership contests found that only certain bodies are seen to embody and personify political le…
Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian party leadership contests, 1975–2012
What is the effect on media coverage of politics when political actors conform to market aspects of media logic by “jumping the shark”—staging dramatic political events to fit the demands of the media—thus reflecting what Strömbäck characterizes as the fourth phase of mediatization? Our paper answers this question with a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of how The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, covered 13 Canadian party le…
Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
Is It Personal? Gendered Mediation in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian National Party Leadership Contests, 1975–2012
Our study examines the phenomenon of personalization in news coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. Because the politicization of the personal through newspaper coverage of bodies and intimate lives has different meanings for women and men politicians, we argue that it is important to account for gender differences in levels of personalization. Our analysis of the Globe and Mail newspaper reporting of th…
Melodrama and Gendered Mediation: Television coverage of women's leadership ‘coups’ in New Zealand and Australia
When they wrested party leadership positions from men in what is widely described as leadership “coups,” the leadership challenges initiated by Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley in New Zealand and Julia Gillard in Australia were prime-time media spectacles featuring live television broadcasts and sensationalized opinion and analysis. This paper analyzes television reportage of these three leadership challenges and argues that while the news coverage …
Kim-Speak: L’effet du genre dans la médiatisation de Kim Campbell durant la campagne pour l’élection nationale canadienne de 1993
À l’occasion d’une élection opposant des chefs de parti de sexe différent, il se peut que la couverture médiatique reflète une conception du leadership politique marquée par la spécificité de genre. Les auteures ont cherché, dans leur étude, à vérifier la présence et l’ampleur de ce phénomène par la comparaison de la couverture médiatique de Kim Campbell et celle de son principal adversaire, le chef libéral Jean Chrétien, lors de l’élection fédér…
Gender, Political Leadership and Media Visibility: Globe and Mail Coverage of Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Contests
When women seek the leadership of competitive political parties, does their sex influence their news visibility throughout the campaign? By conducting a content analysis of all Globe and Mail coverage of each of the three Conservative Party of Canada leadership races featuring competitive female contenders—Flora MacDonald in 1976, Kim Campbell in 1993 and Belinda Stronach in 2004—I measured the news visibility of each of the leading male and fema…
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office, Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 203.It Takes a Candidate explains why professional women aren't running for political office in sufficient numbers to narrow the persistent gender gap in political representation in the United States. By means of a comprehensive survey of men and women in the political “pipeline professions,” the authors disco…
Still different after all these years? A comparison of female and male Canadian MPs in the twentieth century
This article compares the backgrounds, political experiences and social characteristics of men and women who served in the Canadian House of Commons during the twentieth century. This examination is based on two hypotheses: (1) that the former polarisation of female and male politicians has given way to harmonisation; (2) that harmonisation has occurred because women's profiles have changed to become more like those of men. This study finds that …
Who's in the Game? The Framing of Election 2000 by The Globe and Mail and The National Post
This paper reports the results of a content analysis of election–related headlines in Canada's two English–language national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post, over the course of the 36–day 2000 federal election campaign. We found that the two national newspapers' headlines revealed differences in issue emphasis, leader portrayals and party assessment. Yet both newspapers embraced a game frame for election coverage–by focusing …
Coming Soon to a Station near You: The CRTC Policy on Sex-Role Stereotyping
After years of pressure from women's groups, the Canadian government, in 1979, chose to address the problem of stereotypical portrayals of women in the broadcast media. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was asked to form a Task Force composed of representatives of broadcasting, advertising, and women's groups and to ensure that guidelines on the portrayal of women were written and implemented. Eventually the C…
Gender, Political Leadership and Media Visibility: Globe and Mail Coverage of Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Contests
When women seek the leadership of competitive political parties, does their sex influence their news visibility throughout the campaign? By conducting a content analysis of all Globe and Mail coverage of each of the three Conservative Party of Canada leadership races featuring competitive female contenders—Flora MacDonald in 1976, Kim Campbell in 1993 and Belinda Stronach in 2004—I measured the news visibility of each of the leading male and fema…
Who's in the Game? The Framing of Election 2000 by The Globe and Mail and The National Post
This paper reports the results of a content analysis of election–related headlines in Canada's two English–language national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post, over the course of the 36–day 2000 federal election campaign. We found that the two national newspapers' headlines revealed differences in issue emphasis, leader portrayals and party assessment. Yet both newspapers embraced a game frame for election coverage–by focusing …
Politicizing Bodies: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Racism in News Representations of Canadian Political Party Leadership Candidates
Based on the argument that bodies are politicized when their gendered, sexualized, and racialized features are woven into mediated political discourses, our study investigates newspaper coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. A systematic intersectional analysis of reporting on 30 candidates who competed in 13 leadership contests found that only certain bodies are seen to embody and personify political le…
One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada
Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more n…
Is It Personal? Gendered Mediation in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian National Party Leadership Contests, 1975–2012
Our study examines the phenomenon of personalization in news coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. Because the politicization of the personal through newspaper coverage of bodies and intimate lives has different meanings for women and men politicians, we argue that it is important to account for gender differences in levels of personalization. Our analysis of the Globe and Mail newspaper reporting of th…
Melodrama and Gendered Mediation: Television coverage of women's leadership ‘coups’ in New Zealand and Australia
When they wrested party leadership positions from men in what is widely described as leadership “coups,” the leadership challenges initiated by Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley in New Zealand and Julia Gillard in Australia were prime-time media spectacles featuring live television broadcasts and sensationalized opinion and analysis. This paper analyzes television reportage of these three leadership challenges and argues that while the news coverage …
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office, Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 203.It Takes a Candidate explains why professional women aren't running for political office in sufficient numbers to narrow the persistent gender gap in political representation in the United States. By means of a comprehensive survey of men and women in the political “pipeline professions,” the authors disco…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Gender, Competitiveness, and Candidate Visibility in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests
Are women politicians who mount competitive campaigns for high political office as visible and prominent in news coverage of their candidacies as their male competitors? Few studies have systematically or longitudinally investigated the relationship between candidate gender, competitiveness, and media visibility during election or party leadership campaigns. Moreover, studies of media visibility tend to focus exclusively on the presence of candid…
Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian party leadership contests, 1975–2012
What is the effect on media coverage of politics when political actors conform to market aspects of media logic by “jumping the shark”—staging dramatic political events to fit the demands of the media—thus reflecting what Strömbäck characterizes as the fourth phase of mediatization? Our paper answers this question with a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of how The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, covered 13 Canadian party le…
Political battlefield: Aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests
Our study analyzed aggressive figures of speech used by the Globe and Mail to describe the personas, performances, and prospects of women and men leadership candidates for the (Progressive) Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, 1993, and 2004. We codified four distinct forms of power communicated by the aggressive metaphors—power over, power to, power with, and power as—to investigate what these battleground metaphors communicate about gender and…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Julia Gillard and the Gender Wars
The Australian news media used the metaphor of the gender war(s) to describe Julia Gillard's political strategies and speech acts in the final nine months of her term as that nation's first woman prime minister. In particular, the metaphor was mobilized in response to Gillard's October 9, 2012, parliamentary speech on sexism and misogyny. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the gender wars allegory as it was applied to Gillard by three Aust…
Still different after all these years? A comparison of female and male Canadian MPs in the twentieth century
This article compares the backgrounds, political experiences and social characteristics of men and women who served in the Canadian House of Commons during the twentieth century. This examination is based on two hypotheses: (1) that the former polarisation of female and male politicians has given way to harmonisation; (2) that harmonisation has occurred because women's profiles have changed to become more like those of men. This study finds that …
Coming Soon to a Station near You: The CRTC Policy on Sex-Role Stereotyping
After years of pressure from women's groups, the Canadian government, in 1979, chose to address the problem of stereotypical portrayals of women in the broadcast media. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was asked to form a Task Force composed of representatives of broadcasting, advertising, and women's groups and to ensure that guidelines on the portrayal of women were written and implemented. Eventually the C…
Coming Soon to a Station near You: The CRTC Policy on Sex-Role Stereotyping
After years of pressure from women's groups, the Canadian government, in 1979, chose to address the problem of stereotypical portrayals of women in the broadcast media. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was asked to form a Task Force composed of representatives of broadcasting, advertising, and women's groups and to ensure that guidelines on the portrayal of women were written and implemented. Eventually the C…
Still different after all these years? A comparison of female and male Canadian MPs in the twentieth century
This article compares the backgrounds, political experiences and social characteristics of men and women who served in the Canadian House of Commons during the twentieth century. This examination is based on two hypotheses: (1) that the former polarisation of female and male politicians has given way to harmonisation; (2) that harmonisation has occurred because women's profiles have changed to become more like those of men. This study finds that …
Who's in the Game? The Framing of Election 2000 by The Globe and Mail and The National Post
This paper reports the results of a content analysis of election–related headlines in Canada's two English–language national newspapers, The Globe and Mail and The National Post, over the course of the 36–day 2000 federal election campaign. We found that the two national newspapers' headlines revealed differences in issue emphasis, leader portrayals and party assessment. Yet both newspapers embraced a game frame for election coverage–by focusing …
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office
It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office, Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 203.It Takes a Candidate explains why professional women aren't running for political office in sufficient numbers to narrow the persistent gender gap in political representation in the United States. By means of a comprehensive survey of men and women in the political “pipeline professions,” the authors disco…
Gender, Political Leadership and Media Visibility: Globe and Mail Coverage of Conservative Party of Canada Leadership Contests
When women seek the leadership of competitive political parties, does their sex influence their news visibility throughout the campaign? By conducting a content analysis of all Globe and Mail coverage of each of the three Conservative Party of Canada leadership races featuring competitive female contenders—Flora MacDonald in 1976, Kim Campbell in 1993 and Belinda Stronach in 2004—I measured the news visibility of each of the leading male and fema…
Kim-Speak: L’effet du genre dans la médiatisation de Kim Campbell durant la campagne pour l’élection nationale canadienne de 1993
À l’occasion d’une élection opposant des chefs de parti de sexe différent, il se peut que la couverture médiatique reflète une conception du leadership politique marquée par la spécificité de genre. Les auteures ont cherché, dans leur étude, à vérifier la présence et l’ampleur de ce phénomène par la comparaison de la couverture médiatique de Kim Campbell et celle de son principal adversaire, le chef libéral Jean Chrétien, lors de l’élection fédér…
Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
Is It Personal? Gendered Mediation in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian National Party Leadership Contests, 1975–2012
Our study examines the phenomenon of personalization in news coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. Because the politicization of the personal through newspaper coverage of bodies and intimate lives has different meanings for women and men politicians, we argue that it is important to account for gender differences in levels of personalization. Our analysis of the Globe and Mail newspaper reporting of th…
Melodrama and Gendered Mediation: Television coverage of women's leadership ‘coups’ in New Zealand and Australia
When they wrested party leadership positions from men in what is widely described as leadership “coups,” the leadership challenges initiated by Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley in New Zealand and Julia Gillard in Australia were prime-time media spectacles featuring live television broadcasts and sensationalized opinion and analysis. This paper analyzes television reportage of these three leadership challenges and argues that while the news coverage …
Jumping the Shark: Mediatization of Canadian party leadership contests, 1975–2012
What is the effect on media coverage of politics when political actors conform to market aspects of media logic by “jumping the shark”—staging dramatic political events to fit the demands of the media—thus reflecting what Strömbäck characterizes as the fourth phase of mediatization? Our paper answers this question with a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of how The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper, covered 13 Canadian party le…
Politicizing Bodies: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, and Racism in News Representations of Canadian Political Party Leadership Candidates
Based on the argument that bodies are politicized when their gendered, sexualized, and racialized features are woven into mediated political discourses, our study investigates newspaper coverage of candidates for the leadership of Canadian national political parties. A systematic intersectional analysis of reporting on 30 candidates who competed in 13 leadership contests found that only certain bodies are seen to embody and personify political le…
Julia Gillard and the Gender Wars
The Australian news media used the metaphor of the gender war(s) to describe Julia Gillard's political strategies and speech acts in the final nine months of her term as that nation's first woman prime minister. In particular, the metaphor was mobilized in response to Gillard's October 9, 2012, parliamentary speech on sexism and misogyny. Based on a critical discourse analysis of the gender wars allegory as it was applied to Gillard by three Aust…
Gender, Competitiveness, and Candidate Visibility in Newspaper Coverage of Canadian Party Leadership Contests
Are women politicians who mount competitive campaigns for high political office as visible and prominent in news coverage of their candidacies as their male competitors? Few studies have systematically or longitudinally investigated the relationship between candidate gender, competitiveness, and media visibility during election or party leadership campaigns. Moreover, studies of media visibility tend to focus exclusively on the presence of candid…
Political battlefield: Aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests
Our study analyzed aggressive figures of speech used by the Globe and Mail to describe the personas, performances, and prospects of women and men leadership candidates for the (Progressive) Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, 1993, and 2004. We codified four distinct forms of power communicated by the aggressive metaphors—power over, power to, power with, and power as—to investigate what these battleground metaphors communicate about gender and…
Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership
One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada
Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more n…
Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: News coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers
Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political responsibilities, but child-free women are regarded as unable to relate to “ordinary” families or perform well in “feminine” policy areas. As both women and men are now balancing parenthood with politics, the time is ripe to re-investigate how cultural ideas about family lif…
Gender novelty and personalized news coverage in Australia and Canada
Are female government leaders more likely than their male counterparts to see their gendered identities and personal lives profiled in news coverage of their ascents? Are non-novel women leaders—those who are the second in their jurisdiction to achieve the top political job—less likely to experience media personalization than did the women who preceded them in office? By analyzing newspaper coverage of 20 Australian and Canadian premiers, ten wom…
Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders
How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the st…
Works Well with Others: Gendered Mediation of Collaborative Leadership Skills
This research note reports an intriguing finding, reached inductively from textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the leadership attributes of 22 women and men premiers in Australia and Canada. When introducing these newly selected subnational government leaders to the public, journalists articulated their capacity to work well with others as an important leadership competency. Women and men premiers alike were described as inclusive, concilia…
Getting straight to the source: Who evaluates the leadership skills of premiers in Canada and Australia
Journalists have the power to shape the public’s perception of new premiers. They also share that power with the sources they interview. Sourcing is therefore important when making claims about the news media’s role in reproducing gender biases in representations of political leaders. We examine the question of sourcing through an analysis of newspaper coverage of 22 newly elected women and men subnational government leaders in Australia and Cana…
Political science (19 works) · Politics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Newspaper (10 works) · Business (8 works)