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Reframing Normal: Dr. Kristy Sheeler at TEDxIUPUI 2013

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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"Reframing Normal: Raising a Generation of Women in Politics"
Kristina Horn Sheeler is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Communication Studies in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. She studies women and political leadership, examining the ways in which political identity is rhetorically constructed and contested in popular media. She is the author, with Karrin Vasby Anderson, of the book Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity and co-recipient (also with Anderson) of the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women in
Politics. Sheeler and Anderson recently completed their second book together entitled Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture, forthcoming this year with Texas A&M Press' series in presidential rhetoric.

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