Masculine tears, feminine tears - and crocodile tears
Mourning Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Finnish newspapers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mervi Pantti (0000-0001-9332-1556, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Biographical note, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 357-377 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884905054065 |
| OpenAlex | W2106564018 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 20 |
The supposed ‘emotionalization’ of the public sphere has recently been the target of much hostile commentary, both lay and academic. In the news media, there certainly seems to be a growing interest in emotion, as more and more space is devoted to the representations of mourning in the coverage of major disasters or extraordinary deaths. In this study I look at the news coverage of the display of public grief in the Finnish newspapers following the murders of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden in 1986, and Anna Lindh, the Foreign Minister of Sweden in 2003. The similarities between the Palme and Lindh cases give an opportunity to examine how the representation of mourning has changed over time. The second aim of this article is to explore how gender is constructed in the portrayals of grief: are we witnessing a change regarding the persistent stereotypes about the emotional woman and the unemotional man in the representations of grief or just a new deal in gendered emotions
Grief · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Representation (politics · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |