CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Shaffo, Cherer Aklilu |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender and Ethiopian Politics: the Case of Birtukan Midekesa |
| Summary | The thesis is conducted as a case study of an opposition political party leader in Ethiopia, Birtukan Midekesa, who is currently serving life imprisonment in Ethiopian using the frames of intersectionality and visual analysis in qualitative research field of gender studies. The goal of this thesis is to examine the political biography of Birtukan Midekesa in order to find out categories that played significant role and to see how these categories interact in the making of Birtukan Midekesa as public figure in Ethiopia. The study is situated within the field of gender and politics in the body of literature on women’s as political actors. The study mainly aimed at filling the gap of literature on gender and politics in Ethiopia. The findings of the intersectionality analysis indicated that factors that played a role in the making of Birtukan as a public figure are gender, ethnicity age and profession. It is also showed that in the ethnic based Ethiopian political system gender is instrumentalized to serve as the symbol of the nation in order to overthrow the ethnic based government. The finding of the visual analysis indicated that even if Birtukan is portrayed as a woman, some of her visual representation assumes masculine images. |
| Supervisor | Prof. Dr. habil.Peto Andrea |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/shaffo_cherer.pdf |
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