Gender Conflict Framing Theory
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Year: 2015

To what degree is gendered language employed in political discourse, for what purpose, and to what effect? A major premise of gender conflict framing is that political discourse is gendered, especially in instances of evaluations of candidates' and politicians' leadership. Furthermore, gender conflict framing recognizes the use of gendered language to communicate candidate quality, irrespective of candidate sex. For example, following the March 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea in Ukraine, news me