2011/01/01 by Kaitlynn Mendes · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Media Studies and Communication #Gender Politics and Representation
paper · doi:10.1080/14742837.2011.545228
openalex publication_date 2011/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This article analyses the framing in four British and American newspapers of the second-wave feminist movement during its most politically active period (1968–1982). Using content and critical discourse analysis of 555 news articles, the article investigates how movement members were represented, what problems and solutions to women's oppression/inequality were posed and whose voices were used. This paper identifies: opposition to the movement, support for the movement, conflict and movement defined in terms of its goals. In addition to exploring nuances in coverage across time and space, we use a feminist perspective to make political statements about how gendered hierarchies function through media discourse, and argue that the circulation of patriarchal and capitalist ideologies worked to prevent women's equal partnership with men in both countries.