The troubling internet space of 'woman's mind'

Erzsébet Barát*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

The article provides a critical analysis of discourses of female embodiment in the contribution to the series ‘What it is like to be a woman’, invited by the Hungarian feminist internet journal i.c.a. All 14 contributions in the data approach women’s life in terms of female embodiment, challenging hegemonic expectations of bodily existence. The analysis will focus on the dynamic web of ‘said’ and ‘unsaid’ statements and explore the relative openness of the contributions to multiple ways of categorization. The analysis of the texts’ orientation to difference has explored four dimensions of categorization, producing a complex differentiation of feminist voices. It contributes to the contemporary debate about the depoliticizing effects of postfeminism, arguing in favour of an ideology critique of gender relations of power.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)401-426
Number of pages26
JournalDiscourse & Communication
Volume3
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Female embodiment
  • Ideology
  • Intertextuality
  • Linguistic assumptions
  • Postfeminism

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