Citation

Kasinsky RG. Violence Against Women 1998; 4(1): 81-99.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801298004001006

PMID

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Abstract

By examining the reporting of the Tailhook incident in the mainstream media, from the event itself through the conclusion of military and congressional debates about its meaning 5 years later, this article demonstrates that the media construct representations that are in accordance with the dominant gender ideology. The military's interpretation of Tailhook--"boys will be boys" with "party girls"--was contested by the women who were harassed and assaulted. Although the military's cover-up of the incident was interrupted by the intervention of powerful women in the Senate, media coverage reinforced the dominant view of sexual harassment.

Language: en