Table of Contents:
  • The first shall be last: the "pioneer" frame as a constraint for women presidential candidates
  • Fictional presidentiality: presidential portrayals on the large and small screens
  • Presidential campaign oratory: two faces of feminism
  • Political journalism and punditry: framing the "dangerous" campaigns of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton
  • Bodies politic: "porning" the presidential body
  • Parodying presidentiality: a (not so) funny thing happened on the way to the White House
  • Conclusion: our candidates, ourselves.