Category Archives: Women for President

November 5, 2008

Erika Falk in the Baltimore Sun

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Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, comments on women candidates in today’s Baltimore Sun. “Clinton’s campaign was covered much more seriously by the mainstream press than any of the women who came before her,” … Continue reading →

April 10, 2008

Erika Falk on C-Span’s Book TV

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Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will be featured this weekend on C-Span’s Book TV.  The segment was filmed at Dr. Falk’s recent lecture at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Arkansas.   … Continue reading →

April 7, 2008

Erika Falk and the International Museum of Women

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The International Museum of Women interviewed Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “My research indicates that women are described physically four times as often as equivalent men who run in the same race. The … Continue reading →

February 27, 2008

Air America’s Thom Hartmann program to interview Erika Falk

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Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will appear on Thom Hartmann’s Air America radio program today at 12:30 p.m. EST.

February 26, 2008

Erika Falk featured on KARK-TV Little Rock, filmed by C-SPAN’s Book-TV

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  KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Arkansas, covered Erika Falk’s recent event at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. Watch the news piece here.  For an expanded view of Professor Falk’s presentation keep an eye on the Book TV … Continue reading →

February 25, 2008

In These Times features women for president

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In These Times is featuring a new piece by Erika Falk, which was adapted from her book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “Despite striking advances over the last century in women’s social and political rights, and in attitudes about women in … Continue reading →

February 20, 2008

Erika Falk Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun

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  Today’s Baltimore Sun includes an Erika Falk opinion piece on Hillary Clinton’s status as the “first woman” to run for president.  “I am worried that persistently framing women as ‘firsts’ and novelties may abet our collective amnesia about the long … Continue reading →

January 28, 2008

The Chicago Tribune’s “Sexism is dealing Clinton a bad hand”

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An article about women for president that doesn’t mention Women for President.

January 25, 2008

Publishers Weekly on political books

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The January 14, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly features a cover story on this season’s political books.  Asked to comment on Erika Falk’s book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, University of Illinois Press Director Willis Regier offered, “This … Continue reading →

January 25, 2008

Books for Understanding Voting & Elections

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The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has updated its list of Books for Understanding Voting & Elections.  We have some current titles listed including Erika Falk’s just published Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns and Lois Duke Whitaker’s edited volume … Continue reading →