Imported feminism: problematizing the Westernized image of the feminist in Arab social media
| Autor: | Yassmine G. Hussein, Maries Mikhael, Ramy Magdy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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060101 anthropology
05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Media studies Identity (social science) Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts 050701 cultural studies Second-wave feminism New media Feminism Content analysis 0601 history and archaeology Social media Sociology Westernization |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences. 4:324-337 |
| ISSN: | 2632-279X |
| DOI: | 10.1108/jhass-10-2020-0181 |
| Popis: | Purpose This paper aims to analyze the discourse of Arab feminism social media pages as a form of real-time new media. This is to be conducted culturally to understand the Westernized character these pages tend to propagate and the politico-cultural significations of such a propagation. Design/methodology/approach Using visual and content analysis the paper analyzes both the written and visual contents of two popular Arab feminist Facebook pages, “Thory” and “Feminist doodles” to explore its culture relevance/Westernization via the categories of “re-employing the binary second wave feminism, the historical relevance and the Westernized tone of both pages. Findings The pages showed a tendency toward second wave, Westernized, anti-orient feminism. Such importation of feminism made the pages’ message not only a bit irrelevant but also conceptually violent to a large extent. Starting from alien contexts, the two pages dislocate the Arab women experiences of their situation for the sake of comprehending and adapting to heavily Westernized images. Originality/value The paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the gender issue in the Arab context after 2011, what it originally offers is discussing the cultural relevance of popular feminist Facebook pages claiming to represent the everyday struggles of the Arab women. In addition, it shows the impact of real-time media on identity formulation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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