'Women Leaders and Gender Stereotyping in the UK Press: A Poststructuralist Approach' by Judith Baxter

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Reviewed by Nancy HenakuWomen Leaders and Gender Stereotyping in the UK Press: A Poststructuralist Approach is the latest of Judith Baxter's numerous works exploring the intersections between language, women and leadership. The six-chaptered book has four main purposes. First, it explores gendered representations of women leaders from varied professions (that is, politics, business and entertainment media) in selected UK newspapers. Second, it examines constructions of women leaders across the 'feminist agenda spectrum' , a framework that identifies a range of implied attitudes towards feminism in press representations of female leaders. Here, Baxter identifies articles that are profeminist, gender-neutral and antifeminist. Third, it explores the contributions of three critical perspectives -namely, Kanter's leadership stereotype, feminist agenda spectrum and the reflexive approach -in analysing gendered discourses. Finally, it explores the potentialities of the reflexive approach in examining newspaper texts.Informed by feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis (FPDA), Baxter examines samples of a corpus comprising a hundred articles, collected over twenty-four months, from three UK newspapers: the Daily Mail, a centreright tabloid newspaper; the Sunday Times, a middle-ground broadsheet and the Guardian, a centre-left, mid-sized newspaper. Baxter's selection of these newspapers is described as 'semi-ethnographic' (p. 13); thus, the selected texts are not meant to be representative of the politics and readership of all British newspapers (p. vii). However, Baxter's analysis reinforces (and

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