CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Petkovska, Neda |
|---|---|
| Title | "In the Name of the Mother": Media Discourse, Nationalist Ideology and the Politics of Reproduction in Post-Socialist Macedonia |
| Summary | This research project explores to what extent specific media representations in Macedonia come to produce and reproduce nationalist ideology through promotion of traditional gender values via intensified typification of the female body. More specifically, it sees how nationalism operates and is mediated through political media in relation to women’s reproductive rights, particularly the right to access legal abortion. The interest to focus on this question is the implementation of a project for promotion of traditional family values by the Macedonian Government which culminated with restrictive measures on the Macedonian abortion law in 2013.The thesis shows how the Macedonian authorities appropriated the media space for the purpose of normalizing the introduction of restrictive measures on the access to legal abortion. This media appropriation is articulated through an ethnic nationalist discourse rooted in strong patriarchal values of heteronormativity and gender discrimination. The thesis also shows how this way of expressing the nationalist sentiment eschews other important social and economic issues in the country and promotes further ethnic dogmatism and unjust gender power relations. |
| Supervisor | Erzsébet Barát |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/petkovska_neda.pdf |
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