scholarly journals Defining African Feminism(s) While #BeingFemaleinNigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 64-88
Author(s):  
Yemisi Akinbobola
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
African Women ◽  
Reading Group ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
African Feminism ◽  
Shared Stories ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract In 2015, a reading group in Abuja, Nigeria, started the hashtag #BeingFemaleinNigeria, which received widespread attention. Within the confines of 140 characters, Nigerian women and men shared stories of gender inequality, sexism and misogyny in the country. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, this article unpacks the tweets under the #BeingFemaleinNigeria hashtag, and teases out what they tell us about gender inequality in Nigeria, and the ambitions for emancipation. This article takes the stance that African feminism(s) exist, that empirical study of lived experiences of African women should define it, and not perspectives that reject and argue that feminism comes from the other. Therefore, this empirical research contributes to scholarship that seeks to define the characteristics of African feminism(s), particularly as the field is criticised for being over-theorised.

Feminine and Sexy: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Ideology and Professional Cheerleading

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Lauren C. Hindman ◽  
Nefertiti A. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Femininity

Since the 1970s, National Football League (NFL) teams have hired attractive women to dance in scantily clad uniforms as a means of entertaining their heterosexual, male fans—offering a reflection of hegemonic gender ideology in the process. In recent years, a handful of these professional cheerleaders have spoken up and taken action against gender discrimination. Yet, little has changed. This study takes a feminist critical discourse analysis perspective to examining how gender ideology is (re)produced in discourse surrounding the employment roles of NFL cheerleaders, contributing to the perpetuation of gender inequality in sport. Findings demonstrate that three distinct gender ideologies are (re)produced in the discourse, competing with each other to define meanings associated with NFL cheerleading employment roles. Additionally, analysis reveals that while NFL teams have made changes to their cheerleading programs in response to feminist critiques, discourse surrounding these changes continues to (re)produce hegemonic femininity.

Choosing love, marriage and the traditional role

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Montiel McCann
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
White Women ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Controlling Images ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Femininity ◽  
Second Wave

Stereotypes of white women have historically limited their identities to that of wife and mother. Though restrictive, this type of femininity has been mobilised to create hierarchies of womanhood that legitimate this form and subordinate others. However, social change since the feminist second wave has seen the renegotiation of women’s position, and contemporary antiracist and LGBTQIA+ discourse has seen further departure from traditional ideals of femininity. Mass media is a dominant site where controlling images of women are negotiated and in which dominant, or hegemonic, forms emerge. This article applies Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to examine popular British gossip magazine Heat’s romance and sex narratives for discourse which (re)produces, negotiates or challenges hegemonic femininity. Through the appropriation of feminist language, Heat propagates an updated hegemonic femininity which preserves the racio-patriarchal discourse of gender difference whilst pacifying feminist audiences. Estereótipos de mulheres brancas historicamente limitam suas identidades aos papéis de esposas e mães. Embora redutoras, essas categorias têm sido mobilizadas com o objetivo de criar hierarquias de feminilidade que as legitimam enquanto subordinam outras formas do feminino. Contudo, desde a segunda onda do feminismo, mudanças sociais relativas à renegociação do lugar da mulher assim como discursos antirracistas e pró-LGBTQIA+ têm possibilitado um distanciamento dos ideais tradicionais de feminilidade. A mídia de massa veicula imagens de mulheres que acabam se tornando dominantes e hegemônicas. Este artigo aplica a Análise Feminista Crítica do Discurso a narrativas de romance e sexo veiculadas na popular revista inglesa Heat e investiga discursos que (re)produzem, negociam ou desafiam a feminilidade hegemônica. Através da apropriação do discurso feminista, a revista Heat propaga uma versão atualizada de feminilidade hegemônica que preserva discursos patriarcais racializados da diferença de gênero ao mesmo tempo em que tenta apaziguar o público feminista.

scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF BANGKA BELITUNG’S WOMEN ON NOVELS WRITTEN BY BANGKA BELITUNG’S FEMALE AUTHORS: FEMINISIM STUDIES

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andri Fernanda ◽  
Ranto Ranto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Method

The goal of this study was to break down gender issues and stereotypes towards women constructed in Bangka Belitung society from the perspective of female authors. In analyzing the data, researchers carried out a qualitative descriptive method with feminist theory. The researchers also conducted critical discourse analysis on writings that have been published by Bangka Belitung’s female authors. The results showed that there were still gender inequality and inferiority of women in society. The identity crisis faced by women when they are not married since marriage is seen as an ideal as well as a complement to their life as real women in society. On the other hand, the picture of how women had no rights over themselves was demonstrated in a situation when matchmaking and marriage were performed one-sidedly and suddenly, women did not have enough power to question these, even refused them. Besides, how strong a patriarchal system and culture was shaped by women, their closest people and the community was proven in the novels of the Bangka Belitung’s female authors.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER SUBJECTIVITY IN HENRY JAMES’ THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shah Mir ◽  
Saima Jahangir
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Gender Subjectivity

Reassessment and interpretation of gender dynamics in the current social order has been prevalent theme within gender discourses. The yoke of subordination borne by women as readers, writers or fictional characters in the patriarchal pyramid occupies a central space across the whole spectrum of debates. This study utilizes a qualitative mode of inquiry which is centered on textual analysis. The present study evaluates the instances of gender subjectivity and patterns of subjugation within the textual arena invested with hegemonic ideologies as depicted in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The paper employs feminist critical discourse analysis as a tool to analyze The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in order to dissect the underlying ideologies present in the Victorian time period and investigates discourses of subjectivity. The findings of the study demonstrate that notwithstanding temporal advancements, gender power structures remain intact, and women continue to suffer under patriarchal power structures. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0874/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asaf Amir ◽  
Sajid Ali ◽  
Farheen Akhter
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Family And Marriage ◽  
Status Of Women

This paper brings out the Feminist Critique of Ali's Novel The Stone Woman by applying Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA). The study employs a corpus-driven technique. Lazar's (2007) feminist CDA model has been used to study how women are kept out of the social circle, and the ideology of the superiority of men has been institutionalized and naturalized. This, in turn, gives power and hegemony to man as a social class. It has been concluded that the place and status of women in society have been gendered, and they are victims of social and economic discrimination. Men are supported by social institutions like family and marriage to make their discourse privileged, preferred and justified.

scholarly journals Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (II) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Mashhood Anjum ◽  
Iftikhar Baig ◽  
Abdul Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has produced discourses in which structural and thematic samples absorb sex debates. Her feminist tendency has established clear expression in all the aspects of her works: body, voice and characterization. The current study shows how she has used feminist discourse strategies in conventionality with her feminist literary position. This research extensively improves the perceptive of Kamila Shamsie's work and pictures how the feministic arrangement and feminist critical discourse analysis have been inventively infused in her famous works.

scholarly journals The Failure of Gender Equality Initiatives in Academia: Exploring Defensive Institutional Work in Flemish Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannelore Roos ◽  
Jelle Mampaey ◽  
Jeroen Huisman ◽  
Joost Luyckx
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Fundamental Process ◽  
Gender Change

Although a large number of studies have explored the main causes of gender inequality in academia, less attention has been given to the processes underlying the failure of gender equality initiatives to enhance gender representation, especially at the professorial level. We offer a critical discourse analysis of recently promulgated gender policy documents of the five Flemish universities, and demonstrate that defensive institutional work is a fundamental process underlying resistance to gender equality in the academic profession. That is, powerful organizational actors resist gender change by (un)intentionally deploying a combination of discursive strategies that legitimate what we describe as non–time-bound gender equality initiatives: The expected outcomes are undetermined in time, and they delegitimate concrete, time-bound measures that define specific outcomes against well-defined deadlines. By explicitly bringing a temporal dimension into our analysis, we argue that defensive institutional work deflects questions regarding what ought to be achieved when, and contributes to the slow pace of gender change in academia.

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