Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s–2000s: From "Lunatic" Woodhull to "Polarizing" Palin

Author: Teri Finneman
Content: vii + 219 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield
Description: Covers Sarah Palin, Jeannette Rankin, Margaret Chase Smith, and Victoria Woodhull.
Main subject: Media and Popular Culture
Politics
ISBN: 9781498524247 (cloth); 9781498524261 (pap.); 9781498524254 (ebook)
Citation: Finneman, Teri. Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s–2000s: From "Lunatic" Woodhull to "Polarizing" Palin. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. Sylvia. Accessed January 23, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4398.
Updated: 07-17-2025

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