‘Bad girls’: the use of gendered media frames in the Israeli media's coverage of Israeli female political criminals.
The study examined news media coverage of Israeli female political criminals to determine how the media construct and portray women who commit ideological crimes against the state, ultimately to discern what these framing choices suggest about women involved in political crimes. Studies show that th...
| Published in: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 326 - 347 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2015
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