Framing Gender in Romanian 2019’s Presidential Elections. A Comparison between Broadsheet and Tabloid Content Newspapers by Veronica Campian, Ioana Iancu

“…By building off prior work on the same topic (Dan & Iorgoveanu, 2013), the present paper aims to analyze the way Viorica Dăncilă and Klaus Iohannis, as political candidates, are portrayed within 2019 Presidential elections’ campaign. …”
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‘Iron Maidens’ vs. the ‘Witless Pet’: Typecasting the Woman Politician in Editorial Cartoons and Memes by Mara IVAN-MOHOR, Ioana MOHOR-IVAN

“…Combining insights from semiotics with Kanter’s theory of the “role traps” (1993) devised for women in leading positions, the paper will address instances of gender stereotyping and typecasting in editorial cartoons and internet memes which mediate representations of female political leaders (from Hillary Clinton and Theresa May to Viorica Dăncilă, Romania’s first woman prime minister) both as records of public controversies that affect a community at a given time, as well as clues to the discourses which normalise a gendered-biased “homo politicus”…”
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STANCE TAKING, GENDER IDENTITY, AND ROMANIAN WOMEN POLITICIANS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS by Daniela ROVENŢA-FRUMUŞANI

“…The corpus were composed by three categories of addresses delivered by the ex-prime minister Viorica Dăncilă during the 2019 presidential electoral campaign. …”
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