GAMBARAN POLITISI PEREMPUAN DALAM ARENA POLITIK INDONESIA DI MEDIA MASSA (Analisis Tekstual terhadap Berita Politisi Perempuan di Media Massa)

his study investigates how media depict woman politicians in the eyes of media. Various research beyond the sea depict woman in political arena of politics often times have to struggle to accept media reportage which are biased coverage. Research into about image woman politicians in mass media some have been done (conducted) but majority research into take external context (America) and almost everything use content analysis (quantitative). From background above, hence researcher interest to do (conduct) this research. Researcher chooses news coverage which is published in 2010 because compare with first wave general election (2005-2008), woman nominating as candidate at regional leader general election raise sharply. Kompas online (Kompas.Com) specified as research subject because recognized with media giving attention to gender issues (Ranhman, Ace Sriati 2004). We adopted critical feminist approach with textual analysis. Theory of woman politicians and gender, representation, social construction of reality and influences of mass media are used in this research. The result shows that media (Kompas) image woman politicians with certain construction. Ideology outside media (patriarchy, politics and culture) in the reality strength of its influences very dominant and have an effect on to text production process. As strong as any of Kompas idealism which caring mission justice of gender do not see again in news text because patriarchy ideology have very seep not only at media worker but also in society ( the field of any culture, political, social and religion )