Women, Media and Elections

Mile End Institute Podcast

In this episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast (recorded before the latest industrial action at QMUL), Lyndsey Jenkins talks to Dr Emily Harmer (University of Liverpool) and Dr Sally Osei-Appiah (University of Leeds about Dr Harmer's new book, Women, Media, and Elections: Representation and Marginalization in British Politics. They discuss how women candidates, voters, activists and party leaders have been portrayed in the British Press since women's enfranchisement and how the roles of women in public life changed during the twentieth century.