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Author: Donna Smith
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 22.90cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.432kg
ISBN: 9781845194567
ISBN 10: 184519456
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 07 March 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Donna Smith has written an important and engaging original contribution to scholarship on the theory and practice of sexual politics. The concept she develops of a 'frame of representation' both advances her argument and provides other scholars in Politics, Social History, and Media Studies with an important conceptual tool to take forward. Her analysis of the shifting boundary between public and private in press coverage of gay politicians in the UK House of Commons in historical perspective, and the shift in normative judgments which has accompanied it, redresses the gap in academic study of this area. - Dr Raia Prokhovnik, Reader in Politics, Open University Press attitudes to sexuality and gay politicians have guided much recent political communications strategy; where others have flitted past, at last we have a sustained analysis. Donna Smiths book is rich with insight and possibility, and deserves a wide readership. - Dr Michael Higgins, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Strathclyde ** July 2012 - Open University lecturer Donna Smith's new book, Sex, Lies and Politics, prompts BBC News to ask: how much has really changed since gay politicians were routinely outed by the tabloids?
Donna Smith has written an important and engaging original contribution to scholarship on the theory and practice of sexual politics. The concept she develops of a 'frame of representation' both advances her argument and provides other scholars in Politics, Social History, and Media Studies with an important conceptual tool to take forward. Her analysis of the shifting boundary between public and private in press coverage of gay politicians in the UK House of Commons in historical perspective, and the shift in normative judgments which has accompanied it, redresses the gap in academic study of this area. - Dr Raia Prokhovnik, Reader in Politics, Open University Press attitudes to sexuality and gay politicians have guided much recent political communications strategy; where others have flitted past, at last we have a sustained analysis. Donna Smiths book is rich with insight and possibility, and deserves a wide readership. - Dr Michael Higgins, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Strathclyde ** July 2012 - Open University lecturer Donna Smith's new book, Sex, Lies and Politics, prompts BBC News to ask: how much has really changed since gay politicians were routinely outed by the tabloids?
Author Information
Donna Smith has extensive experience in social scientific and political research. She is an Associate Lecturer in Politics and Social Sciences at the Open University, where she also works in faculty management. She completed her Ph.D. at the Open University in 2009, after working in Westminster politics. Her BA (Hons) and MA were studied at the University of East Anglia.
