Dancing With Shackles:The Image Of Female Politicians In Taiwan Political News

This study focuses on the image of female politician reported in the 2016 Taiwan election political news,by observing the images of three female political figures during this election.Combining the content analysis and text analysis methods to discuss the media reproduction of the female Politicians in Taiwan,and the Interaction among gender/politics and media.The results indicate that the agenda of female politicians' image shape the contradiction between the characteristics of women and the image of leaders,specifically,the limited space of female candidates political opinion expression,and the performance of important political issues were questioned;although media tend to deny the political ability and style of female,affirm their personal traits.in addition,media tend to weaken the gender attributes in the political image of the public domain.the situation of female politicians is that they must face the dual pressures of political parties and gender ideologies:in the one hand,female politicians show weakness in political interaction,in the other hand,the space for Women self-expression in the media is limited,and the party's position and gender stereotypes of media can influence the evaluation of female politicians' figures.The results of text analysis indicates the perform of interaction between gender and politics:1/The metaphors of family relationship;2/Negative attribution to female characteristics.;3/typical female image.In summary,Gender Ideology and stereotypes are the rhetoric and basis of rationalization of political standpoint.