In June 1999, the Labor Party's deputy leader, Jenny Macklin, argued that cartoons such as
the following two of Meg Lees were offensive and demeaning to women politicians because …

The last few years have been big for cartoon controversies in Australia and around the
world. There was the fear that political cartoonists would be muzzled under the new sedition …

'Forget Policy—I've Got Great Legs!'That newspaper headline was one of the most
interesting if not anomalous banners to appear during the 1998 federal election campaign. It …

In her account of the Danish cartoon furore of 2005, Klausen (2009: 6) notes that 'political
cartoons tell a story or make a comment on current events', and 'use exaggerated …

Senior women politicians are a novelty, receiving enormous media attention. They have had
to deal with high expectations in the media and other political institutions such as …

The political cartoon became a settled part of the British daily press early in the twentieth
century. The cartoon is an editorial in pictures, working with a traditional armoury of images …

Lord Baker, vice-chairman of The Cartoon Museum and an expert in the field, traces the
history of political lampooning from Robert Walpole to Gordon Brown and concludes that the …

Female politicians have long complained that the media treat them differently from their male
colleagues. This paper analyses the press treatment of the first female MPs, members of …

While there is an acute national shortage of female editorial cartoonists, there is no shortage
of people asking why. Fortunately, there is a small flock of women who choose to express …