Fashionable (dis-)order in politics
Gender, power and the dilemma of the suit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12878294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Flicker (University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 201-219 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-8296 • E-ISSN: 2040-0918 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/macp.9.2.201_3 |
| OpenAlex | W4230330780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Women in political leadership are imprisoned in a double-bind communication: when they perform and dress along feminine patterns, they might be looked as deficient actors in the hard field of politics. When they refuse typical female looks and submit to male dress code, their performance is commented as conspicuous. The global visual political communication in media sends clear signals: nothing changes. Women are still the exception, ‘the other’. The visualized lose-lose situation for female politicians is conceived as symbolical violence. In this article the central piece of clothing - the dark suit – is discussed under cultural perspective, along macro-structural principles of the gender order, as instrument in the repetitive practice of exclusion in politics and within the distribution of media pictures. A visual discourse analysis - a ‘vis-course analysis’ - of international group photos from political events like summits traces fashion practices marking the fields of masculinity and power
Art · Clothing · Dilemma · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Masculinity · Media studies · Nothing · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |