The communicative construction of FEMEN: naked protest in self-mediation and German media discourse
| Autor: | Tanja Thomas, Miriam Stehling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Contextualization
Visual Arts and Performing Arts Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies) Communication Discourse analysis 05 social sciences Agency (philosophy) 050801 communication & media studies Gender studies Feminism language.human_language Gender Studies German 0508 media and communications 050903 gender studies language New feminism Sociology 0509 other social sciences Transculturalism |
| Zdroj: | Feminist Media Studies. 16:86-100 |
| ISSN: | 1471-5902 1468-0777 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14680777.2015.1093111 |
| Popis: | In this article, we investigate how FEMEN employs female nudity to raise public attention in their mediatized strategies and how this form of naked protest is represented and interpreted in German media discourse. We will show that the significant media presence of FEMEN’s naked protest actions and its self-portrayal as the new feminism of our days have become increasingly ambivalent over time. As this is of great importance with regards to public perceptions of feminism, feminist activists, and feminist agency in general, our analysis provides a detailed investigation of the processes of appreciation and devaluation of FEMEN as an expression of contemporary feminists and feminism. Employing a qualitative discourse analysis, the article highlights the interwoven processes of contextualization and decontextualization in FEMEN’s self-mediation and news coverage in Germany. It is shown that FEMEN’s protests from 2008 to 2013 materialize in “local” actions, but are increasingly constructed and interpr... |
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