"De transsexuella är få och osynliga" - Framställningar av transsexualism, könskorrigering och steriliseringar i svenska massmedier
(2014) SOPA63 20141School of Social Work
- Abstract
- "The transsexuals are few and invisible" - Depictions of transsexualism, gender reassignment and sterilizations in Swedish media
The aim of this study is to, based on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, analyze constructions of transsexualism, sex reassignment and sterilizations in Swedish media in forms of editorials in newspapers. This study's theoretical framework and the methodology employed in this study is Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, using Fairclough's three-dimensional conception of discourse, supplemented by queer theory. The discourses that have been identified in the material in this study is the medical, the political, the moral, the historical, and the social discourse. The articles are characterized by... (More) - "The transsexuals are few and invisible" - Depictions of transsexualism, gender reassignment and sterilizations in Swedish media
The aim of this study is to, based on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, analyze constructions of transsexualism, sex reassignment and sterilizations in Swedish media in forms of editorials in newspapers. This study's theoretical framework and the methodology employed in this study is Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, using Fairclough's three-dimensional conception of discourse, supplemented by queer theory. The discourses that have been identified in the material in this study is the medical, the political, the moral, the historical, and the social discourse. The articles are characterized by a high level of interdiscursivity which, according to Fairclough, suggests social change. The dichotomy within the gender system is both challenged and reproduced side by side in the material. (Less)
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- author
- Monthamre, Malin LU
- supervisor
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- Em Andersson LU
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Critical discourse analysis, Fairclough, Newspapers, Transsexualism, Gender reassignment, Sterilization, Gender identity, Constuctions of The Other, Social constructionism, Queer theory
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4616964
- date added to LUP
- 2014-09-03 10:50:45
- date last changed
- 2014-09-10 11:31:12
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