'She uses men to boost her career': Chinese digital cultures and gender stereotypes of female academics in Zhihu discourses
| Autor: | Xiaoxiao Zhang, Jenny Zhengye Hou, Majid KhosraviNik, Altman Yuzhu Peng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
050101 languages & linguistics Linguistics and Language Status quo Essentialism LC Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies Character (symbol) Gender studies Language and Linguistics Politics Critical discourse analysis 0508 media and communications 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social media Sociology Internet users China media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Semiotics. :1-19 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1219 1035-0330 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10350330.2021.1940920 |
| Popis: | Portrayed by the media as the story of “how a female PhD juggles intimate relationship with four male PhD academics”, the LM incident, named after the female main character of the story, was a high-profile case, which provoked public debates on Chinese social media in 2019. In this article, we explore how the stereotyping of female PhDs plays out in Chinese Internet users’ discussions about the LM incident. We collected a total of 632 relevant posts from the most popular Chinese community question-answering (CQA) site – Zhihu and analysed them by drawing on critical discourse analysis (CDA). The research findings reveal how a sexualised portrayal of female PhDs, which is dramatically “different” from the traditional, asexual stereotypes of well-educated women, is established in Zhihu users’ postings. Many Zhihu users, including both women and men, mobilise an overwhelmingly sexualised portrayal of female PhDs, which speaks to the normalisation of patriarchal discourses in the status quo of Chinese academia and beyond. The research findings shed light on post-socialist gender politics, which facilitates the perpetuation of gender essentialism in China in the post-reform era.\ud \ud |
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