Reconstituting the ‘good woman’: Gendered visual politics on social media during 2021 state election in West Bengal, India
Rituparna Banerjee,
Saumava Mitra
Abstract:This paper explores the visual politics of gender in electoral politics in West Bengal (WB). We examine how women political candidates visually construct their non-verbal political performance on social media, and how such visuals relate to social mores and societal expectations surrounding femininity. Drawing on theories of the social construction of gender and visual political communication, we conducted a content analysis of 1,033 visual artefacts from eight individual women candidates and 205 from the Face… Show more
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