Understanding Gender Expertise in the Post-Truth Era: Media Representations of Gender-Based Analysis Plus in Canada

Stephanie Paterson; Francesca Scala

doi:10.4000/irpp.1562

We’ve Come a Long Way, But We Could Be Doing Better: Gendered Commentary in U.S. Media Coverage of the 1999 and 2019 Women’s World Cup

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.2020-0190 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Eileen Díaz McConnell ◽

Neal Christopherson ◽

Michelle Janning

Keyword(s):

Contrast Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Hard Work ◽

Media Representations ◽

World Cup ◽

National Team ◽

Gender Based ◽

First World ◽

The U.S ◽

Over Time

In 2019, the U.S. Women’s National Team earned its fourth FIFA Women’s World Cup. Has gendered commentary in media coverage about the U.S. Women’s National Team changed since winning their first World Cup 20 years ago? Drawing on 188 newspaper articles published in three U.S. newspapers in 2019, the analyses contrast media representations of the 2019 team with a previous study focused on coverage of the 1999 team. Our analysis shows important shifts in the coverage over time. The 1999 team was popular because of their contradictory femininity in which they were “strong-yet-soft.” By 2019, the team’s popularity was rooted in their talent, hard work, success, and refusal to be silent about persisting gender-based disparities in sport and the larger society.

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MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: GENDER DIMENSION

Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki ◽

10.20916/1812-3228-2020-3-132-141 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 132-141

Author(s):

E.S. Gritsenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Media Representations ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Social Culture ◽

The Social ◽

Linguistic Representations ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Gender Based ◽

Gendered Ideologies

The paper focuses on the discourse surrounding a resonate media event connected with the discussion of contested statements concerning domestic violence made by a popular Russian TV-host and blogger. We use feminist critical discourse analysis and analysis of the sociocultural context of discourse to explore the strategies employed to resolve the conflict and highlight the ways global discourses on gender and violence are localized. We show how linguistic representations promote abuse-sustaining discourses or question the gendered ideologies of male violence against women and challenge the social system that condones gender-based violence. The study revealed heterogeneity of gender attitudes, varying (gender-based) degrees of tolerance to statements about domestic violence, the ineffectiveness of the appeal to Anglophone discourses on gender and the effectiveness of a strategy based on the knowledge and experience of “one’s own” social culture. The persistence of patriarchal values in the discourse on domestic violence is supported by widely used strategies of degendering the violence and gendering the blame.

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The Life and death of Anene Booysen: Colonial discourse, gender-based violence and media representations

South African Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1177/0081246317737916 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 470-481 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Floretta Boonzaier

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Media Representations ◽

Collective Consciousness ◽

Colonial History ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Gendered Violence ◽

Life And Death ◽

History Of ◽

Gender Based

This article makes the argument that representations of gendered and sexual violence, its perniciousness and its persistence need to be traced historically, not just to the recent history of apartheid but to a longer colonial history, which has continued relevance for the ways in which bodies and subjectivities are coded. Media reportage on the death of Anene Booysen in 2013 is read through a decolonial feminist lens to argue that it tells us something of the enduring legacy of coloniality, to illustrate how gendered violence is made meaningful in our collective consciousness, and to show that it demands a rethinking of our framing of gendered violence in the present.

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