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Subject(s)

• Gay legislators—Great Britain—Press coverage [Browse]
• Gay politicians—Great Britain—Press coverage [Browse]
• Press and politics—Great Britain—History [Browse]
• Homosexuality—Political aspects—Great Britain—Press coverage [Browse]

Notes

A study of how gay MPs in the UK are represented in newspapers.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• The press, the personal and news values
• Issues of public and private
• Unifying key themes
• Histories of homosexuality: definition and discrimination
• Private lives, public consequences: representation pre-1980
• Immoral sexuality, moralistic press coverage: representation 1980-1990
• Histories of homosexuality: the (slow) advancement of gay equality
• Scurrilous politicians, scandalous stories: representation 1990-1997
• Public life, public pressures: representation post-1997.

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ISBN

• 9781845194567 (h/b : alk. paper)
• 184519456X (h/b : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011045358

OCLC

676727184

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