Media Coverage of Rachida Dati and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: An Intersectional Analysis of Representations of Minority Women in the French Political Context

Galy‐Badenas, Flora; Gray, F. Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/07491409.2020.1740900

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“…Thus, numerous studies have explored gender-differentiated media coverage, concentrating particularly on the under-representation and gendered stereotypes of female politicians (Van der Pas and Aaldering, 2020). Over the past decade, several scholars have pointed to signs of change in media representation of women in politics across numerous nations and regions (Alkan, 2016; Goodyear-Grant, 2013; Lachover, 2017), including in sports journalism (Ponterotto, 2014; Muñoz-Muñoz and Salido-Fernández, 2022), and from the perspective of intersectionality (Carter et al, 2013; Galy-Badenas and Gray, 2020). This literature has not, however, established whether these changes and trends have taken place also in China, where the influence of state media on political, discursive, and social norms, as well as gender culture, is especially strong, with the result that Chinese women have not been able to establish less hegemonic cultural norms that would promote what they perceive to be the positive gendered images as Western women have (Lachover, 2017).…”

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“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)

Wang

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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In the 2010s, feminism thrived in China amid a transformation in social stratification and a rise in women’s social status. The focus of this study is on the representation of the images of women of various social strata in national news reports. Taking Xinwen Lianbo, a national news program produced by China Central Television, as an example, we analyzed visual representations of 360 female figures from 2011 to 2020. The findings revealed that, rather than reflecting China’s Tǔ-shaped stratification structure, the program depicted an “olive-shaped” pseudo-society in which women of what we term the “middle” stratum constituted the largest portion and served as multifaceted role models, women of the “prominent” stratum served as bellwethers of socioeconomic development, and women of the “ordinary” stratum did not participate in social development. The program’s imagery also created a double standard for domestic duties: Women of the prominent stratum were depicted as disembedded from the social role of housewife and breaking through the career “glass ceiling,” though not achieving equality with men in terms of their positions in society or politics, while women of the ordinary stratum as bearing the ideological reshuffle of conservative gender values. This study suggests a fresh perspective on the great disparities in the representation of women in different strata, which differs from the status of gender and stratum in real society.

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“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)

Wang

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…For example, a white female French presidential nominee, Arlette Laguiller, was described by the French press similarly as her male counterparts (Barnes and Larrivee 2011). However, French newspapers reinforced gender stereotypes when covering two ethnically diverse French women politicians, Rachida Dati and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Galy-Badenas and Gray 2020).…”

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Identity, Social Media and Politics: How Young Emirati Women Make Sense of Female Politicians in the UAE

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2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Social media offered new opportunities for politicians to engage with the public. However, little research has explored public perceptions of women politicians and their role in women's empowerment, especially in non-Western contexts. This study used a qualitative methodology to explore how young Emirati women made sense of gender and other identities in their discussions of Emirati women politicians on social media. Drawing from intersectionality theory, the study looked beyond gender, exploring other identities that may play a role in Emirati women's perceptions. The results offered insights into the family and ethnic identity as they interacted with gender. The findings also highlighted the challenges of personalizing messages in a patriarchal society. This study contributes to international political communication research and practice by understanding the complexity of women's sense-making of social media and women politicians in a non-Western context.

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“…Coined by law scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991), the concept of intersectionality originates in Black feminism in the United States. As intersectionality has become a globalized concept, scholars argue the need to re-contextualize power relations that result from intersecting identities within a specific context, instead of generalizing a Western/North American application, approach and understanding (Al’Ghabra, 2018; Bilge, 2019; Galy-Badenas and Gray, 2020). In this regard, Larner (1995: 177) insists a holistic understanding of power relations must take into account all social identities: ‘Māori feminists have forced the majority of Pākehā feminists to acknowledge, and to understand, that there is more than one way of interpreting gender relations’.…”

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“…For instance, Danish mainstream media have stressed the Muslim religious background of congresswoman Özlem Cekic (Fiig, 2010), revealing and shaping audience interest and biases. French mainstream newspapers otherize French minority women politicians and construct them as unfit and illegitimate to represent the French population in its diverse entirety (Galy-Badenas and Gray, 2020). New Zealand mainstream media’s construction of Māori woman politician, Metiria Turei, as a stereotype of a ‘welfare mother’ influenced the audience’s negative attitude towards her, arguably contributing to her resignation (Gray, 2019).…”

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An intersectional approach to media coverage of politics in New Zealand: The case of Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett

Galy‐Badenas

Gray

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2021

Media International Australia

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This study analyses media coverage of two Māori women politicians in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article adopts an intersectional lens to critically examine the discriminatory ideologies at play in mainstream New Zealand media coverage of Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett. The analysis reveals that although the coverage examined in this article presents the Māori heritage of the two women very differently, the coverage pays close attention to both women’s gender and bodies while simultaneously diminishing their individuality by folding them into stereotypes. Classification and disempowerment of ‘stroppy women’/‘stirrer Māori’ are enabled by the intersection of racist, sexist and classist discourses.

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Media Coverage of Rachida Dati and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem: An Intersectional Analysis of Representations of Minority Women in the French Political Context

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)

“Re-stratifying” women: female images in China’s state media from the perspective of social stratification (2011–2020)

Identity, Social Media and Politics: How Young Emirati Women Make Sense of Female Politicians in the UAE

An intersectional approach to media coverage of politics in New Zealand: The case of Metiria Turei and Paula Bennett

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