Foreign Women and Toilets

Marciniak, Katarzyna

doi:10.1080/14680770802420279

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“…And while feminist scholars have long identified the importance of individual experience, personal disclosure, and critical reflection in the theorization of and resistance to women's oppression (Al-Ani, 1990;Marciniak, 2008), also needed is a sense of collectivism in the 'ongoing engagement with the inequities that structure and often undermine women's lives' (Biressi and Nunn, forthcoming).…”

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“…When examining coverage longitudinally, it becomes clear that where feminism was once constructed as an organized social movement (particularly in the US), by 2008 it was hegemonically constructed as a set of personal beliefs. And while feminist scholars have long identified the importance of individual experience, personal disclosure, and critical reflection in the theorization of and resistance to women's oppression (Al-Ani, 1990;Marciniak, 2008), also needed is a sense of collectivism in the 'ongoing engagement with the inequities that structure and often undermine women's lives' (Biressi and Nunn, forthcoming).…”

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‘Feminism rules! Now, where’s my swimsuit?’ Re-evaluating feminist discourse in print media 1968–2008

Mendes

2012

Media, Culture & Society

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Using both content and critical discourse analysis, this article traces the emergence of and changes in the ways feminism has been discursively constructed in 998 British and American news articles between 1968 and 1982 -which I define as the 'height' of the Second Feminist Wave, and 2008 -marking 40 years after feminism began gaining momentum in both nations. In analysing the British Times, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, and Guardian newspapers, as well as the American New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, I argue that not only has there been an erasure of feminist activism from these newspapers over time, but that discourses of feminism have become both de-politicized and de-radicalized since the 1960s, and can now largely be considered neoliberal in nature -a problematic construction for those seeking collective social change.

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‘Feminism rules! Now, where’s my swimsuit?’ Re-evaluating feminist discourse in print media 1968–2008

Mendes

2012

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Racist and xenophobic attitudes accompanied sexist depictions of migrant and foreign women (Marciniak, 2008;Monde, 2018), which subject them to double subordination. For example, foreign sex workers have become the target of discrimination and derogation in the newspapers of Malaysia (Suppiah et al, 2019); refugee women in Malawi have less income than men despite working heavier (Ager et al, 1995).…”

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Social Representations of Foreign & Turkish Women on the New Turkish Media: A Thematic Discourse Analysis Through Masculinity Ideology/ Türkiye Yeni Medyasında Yabancı ve Türk Kadınların Sosyal Temsilleri: Erkeklik İdeolojisi Üzerinden Bir Tematik Söylem Analizi

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Past research has laid bare the determining role of media content on people's gender stereotypic beliefs.In this article, we aimed to examine social media content, which is one of the most influential causal factors in producing social representations in terms of masculinity ideology. We collected the written materials about women in various online collaborative dictionaries written by anonymous writers. We analyzed the entries using thematic discourse analysis, and obtained four themes consisting of (1) the woman as a body, (2) the woman as a persona,(3) the woman as a sexual partner, and (4) the woman as a wife. We discussed these themes in the frames of social representations and masculinity ideology, and the analysis clearly shows the new media's role in reproducing traditional gender representations via masculinity ideology. This study extends the knowledge about the mechanism between stereotypic representations of women and masculinity ideology in Turkey. The paper contributes to the growing literature on the discursive construction of feminine identity by exploring the dictionary writers' use of language and how these are complicit in the reproduction of masculinity ideology.

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“…The hotel maid (the ‘housekeeper’), who services rooms, works in a quasi-domestic public/private space: cleaning up, changing bedding and scrubbing toilets. In her analysis of the representation of women cleaners, Katarzyna Marciniak (2008) observes: ‘… removing other people’s dirt – in various cultural contexts by an immigrant, migrant, or guest worker, intertwines with racialized processes of social abjection and consolidation, at the most intimate, private level, of the status of the “rightful” subject’ (p. 342). This mediated master-maid relationship between DSK and Diallo should also be understood in postcolonial terms ….…”

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Following the money: News, sexual assault and the economic logic of the gendered public sphere

Biressi

2018

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article engages with news coverage of the sexual assault scandal involving elite politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and hotel cleaner Nafissatou Diallo to explore what their media treatment reveals about current relations of gender and power in the public sphere. Several key questions inform the analysis. What happens when a low status complainant speaks to power? What strategies of denigration take place to challenge her credibility? And how (in what terms) do the media make sense of the encounter between the two parties? Feminist media analyses of sex crime in the news have shown how misogynist attitudes underlie the depiction of women who speak out. This analysis reveals how the rules of media engagement are stacked against the speaking subject because she is both female and poor. It finds that economic inequalities, as well as those of gender and race, are dramatically inscribed in the mythic narratives of news. The overall conclusion is that the public sphere and its dynamics of denigration and disrespect toward women who complain are problematically organized along faultlines embedded in the gendered socio-economics of the public and private/domestic realms.

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Foreign Women and Toilets

Cited by 7 publications

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‘Feminism rules! Now, where’s my swimsuit?’ Re-evaluating feminist discourse in print media 1968–2008

‘Feminism rules! Now, where’s my swimsuit?’ Re-evaluating feminist discourse in print media 1968–2008

Social Representations of Foreign & Turkish Women on the New Turkish Media: A Thematic Discourse Analysis Through Masculinity Ideology/ Türkiye Yeni Medyasında Yabancı ve Türk Kadınların Sosyal Temsilleri: Erkeklik İdeolojisi Üzerinden Bir Tematik Söylem Analizi

Following the money: News, sexual assault and the economic logic of the gendered public sphere

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