REPRESENTATION OF FEMALE MEMBERS OF YPJ IN BRITISH MEDIA

Ana Luiza Moreira Mineiro Drummond,Maria Luiza Siqueira Batista

doi:10.33956/tensoesmundiais.v17i33.3426

Ana Luiza Moreira Mineiro Drummond, Maria Luiza Siqueira Batista

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https://doi.org/10.33956/tensoesmundiais.v17i33.3426

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Abstract

This paper aims to identify how the YPJ fighters have been framed in British media and to what extent these portrayals reflect misconceptions not only related to their gender, but also to a westernized judgment of their choices. In order to accomplish this, a content qualitative analysis was employed based on a compilation of articles released by BBC and The Guardian between 2014 and 2018.

Highlights

Warfare is considered an almost-exclusively male activity
The roles taken by women have historically been more passive and female combatants are merely seen as victims and targets of physical or sexual violence, rather than fighters who have agency (BASER; TOIVANEN, 2016)
5 Conclusions As the analysis proposed in this paper suggested, the narratives around the involvement of women in political violence still carries a strong sense of deeply problematic gender misconceptions

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Introduction

Warfare is considered an almost-exclusively male activity. Most of what is known about armed conflicts is told by the words and voice of men. The contributions of poststructuralism to FSS derives from its central claim of how narratives, concepts and figurations are constructed and have direct impact on how a supposed reality is understood and, Representation of the female members of ypj in british media as a consequence, inform how policies are generally adopted (BUZAN et al, 2009) Such analyses are powerful tools to support the claims made by FSS against gender misconceptions in the construction of security, but they confront how feminist discourses can be bounded around constructed narratives that does not, necessarily, emancipate women from stereotypes of passive and submissive individuals. This paper will propose an analysis of the terms applied to these women by the media and how they carry a strong sense of Orientalist misconceptions to frame them in Western imaginary

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