The First Lady/First Wife in Editorial Cartoons: Rhetorical Visions through Gendered Lenses

Edwards, Janis L.; Chen, Huey-Rong

doi:10.1080/07491409.2000.11735774

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“…These analyses examine the portrayal of candidates (Edwards, 2001;Gilmartin, 2001;Koetzle and Brunell, 1996), as well as voters (Edwards and Ware, 2005). Attention to gender has resulted in studies that examine the portrayal of the first lady in cartoons (Edwards and Rong-Chen, 2000) and those that focus on female candidates (Gilmartin, 2001). Diamond (2002) examines political cartoons from Arab/Muslim newspapers to address those cartoons that are not ''laughing matters'' and instead articulate important political themes and motifs.…”

Section: Political Cartoons: No Laughing Mattermentioning

confidence: 98%

Blaming Bush

Kelley-Romano¹,

Westgate²

2007

Journalism Studies

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Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the United States. Employing the taxonomy of Medhurst and DeSousa (1981), this essay examines the cartoons that attacked President Bush and were generated in the month following Hurricane Katrina. These cartoons made two basic claims: (1) that Bush's personal and policy decisions were detrimental to the relief efforts and the victims and (2) that he was lacking the intelligence and integrity necessary for the successful handling of the situation. An examination of these political cartoons demonstrates cartoons functioned to construct a national kategoria, or speech of accusation. The graphic strategies of size, placement, and relation of text are particularly suited to construct immediate indictments on policy choices and attacks on personal character. Finally, some conclusions as to the potency, both argumentatively and visually, of the political cartoon form are offered.

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Section: Political Cartoons: No Laughing Mattermentioning

confidence: 98%

Blaming Bush

Kelley-Romano¹,

Westgate²

2007

Journalism Studies

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“…Edwards (1997) published an analysis of image and metaphor in political cartoons surrounding the 1988 presidential campaign. Edwards and Chen (2000) critiqued cartoons depicting the role of the First Lady arguing that the power balance between presidents and First Ladies was depicted as a zero-sum game in political cartoons. In their examples, if the First Lady was presented as a strong or influential figure, the president would be depicted as emasculated.…”

Section: Contemporary Rhetorical Theories Of Humormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is an interesting example of perceived role reversal in domestic humor 23 which serves President Clinton by making light of the argument (ST1) that Hillary Clinton was either the co-president or the one really in charge. Edwards and Chen (2000) in their discussion of the depiction of First Ladies in political cartoons, argue that political power in presidential couples is a zero-sum game,…”

Section: Clinton's Criticism Of Political Opponentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Prosodic enhancers of humorous effect in political speeches

Sayenko¹

2014

Argumentation in Context

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This dissertation offers a theory of the strategic use of rhetorical humor in political discourse. This theory accounts for the differences between intentional and unintentional humor while creating a structure for the identification of humorous utterances. The largest gap in the current state of knowledge concerning rhetorical humor is a lack of understanding regarding the connection between humorous attempts and persuasive situations. This area of concern is answered with a classification of the rhetorical strategies of humor. I propose three nested categories for the identification of actions that have amusement or laughter as an expected response. These three categories in order of increasing exclusivity are the risible, humor, and rhetorical humor. The risible includes all stimuli that create amusement, regardless of intention. The risible is not

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“…One study of Mrs. Clinton's television image found that it was inherently unstable because it challenged traditional notions of womanhood and therefore did not conform to "most of the public discursive narratives constructed by television news" (Brown 1997, 225). Even an analysis of editorial cartoons demonstrated that first ladies are constrained by their gender roles (Edwards and Chen 2000). Such limitations are applicable to press coverage of wives of foreign leaders as well (Rifkind 2000).…”

Section: Women and Politicsmentioning

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The First Lady Scholarship Reconsidered

Stooksbury

Edgemon

2003

Women & Politics

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Interdisciplinary scholarship on America's first ladies is slowly coming into its own both as an independent category of research and as an extension of presidential and gender research. However, aside from a brief review of scholarly literature on Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as First Lady (Watson 2000a), no one has systematically reviewed the research to date to ascertain what work has been accomplished and where more scholarly attention is needed, vis-à-vis this burgeoning sub-field of American government and politics. This work seeks to fill that void.

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The First Lady/First Wife in Editorial Cartoons: Rhetorical Visions through Gendered Lenses

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Blaming Bush

Blaming Bush

Prosodic enhancers of humorous effect in political speeches

The First Lady Scholarship Reconsidered

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