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A Matter of Public Interest: Press Coverage of the Outfits of Women MPs 1918–1930
Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 , DOI: 10.16995/olh.583
Krista Cowman

This paper considers media coverage of the clothes chosen by early women MPs. Opening with the very recent case of public outrage sparked by the dress choice of Labour MP Tracy Brabin, it suggests that a disproportionate attention to what women wear in Parliament rather than what they do there is a longstanding phenomenon. Looking at examples from the 1920s, the first decade of women MPs, it demonstrates how political women have consistently been described in terms of their appearance much more than their policies. The article considers the extent to which a tendency to present women MPs as a unified group added to this, and the challenges of agreeing on a suitable feminine parliamentary dress code as well as a landmark legal case which viewed their dress as a matter of legitimate public interest.

中文翻译:

公共事务:1918-1930年女议员服装的新闻报道

本文考虑了早期女议员选择的衣服的媒体报道。工党议员特蕾西·布拉宾(Tracy Brabin)的着装选择引发了最近一次引起公众愤怒的案例,这表明人们对妇女在议会中的着装而不是她们在做什么上的过分关注是一个长期现象。回顾1920年代(女议员的第一个十年)的例子,它表明,政治妇女在外表上一贯被描述得比其政策要多得多。这篇文章考虑了将女性议员作为一个统一的团体来呈现的趋势,以及在商讨合适的女性议会着装守则以及将女性服饰视为合法公众的里程碑式法律案件方面所面临的挑战。利益。
更新日期:2020-01-01
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